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Annual Bibliography of Commonwealth Literature 2007
This paper argues that discourses of love in Ghanaian market literature for youth offer a view into complex negotiations of agency and empowerment. Drawing on Deborah Durham's notion of youth as "social `shifters'" and Francis Nyamnjoh's conception of the "interconnectedness" of agency, I take Ghanaian market literature as one specific case of how African literature for youth foregrounds questions of continuity and change as African societies enter into increasingly complex global relations. In this literature for youth, received notions of love, often constructed out of impressions from American pop and hip hop music, carry new notions of agency that compete with existing "domesticated" forms. Authors like Ike Tandoh and Evelyn Tay employ discourses of love to offer youth alternative avenues for empowerment in a context of socio-economic disenfranchizement. In a creative process of "straddling", this writing both reveals and reproduces the contradictions that obtain in youth configurations of agency.

De vandrande djaeknarne

V >> Viktor Rydberg >> De vandrande djaeknarne"De vandrande djaeknarne" is a novel in Swedish by the Swedish writer
Viktor Rydberg (1828--1895). It was first published in the daily
newspaper "Goeteborgs Handels- och Sjoefartstidning" in April and May
1856, using the pen name "Agricola". In 1896 it was published in
volume 3 of the author's collected works ("Skrifter", 14 volumes),
which reappeared in many editions and reprints over the following
years. "Skrifter" has a commentary by Swedish literature historian
Karl Warburg (1852-1918), which is also included here.


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