{"product_id":"contraband-bodies-9781774391266","title":"Contraband Bodies","description":"\u003cp\u003e \u003ci\u003eContraband Bodies\u003c\/i\u003e is a debut to be reckoned with. Jide Salawu shines in this personal record of migratory travails and a country lost to precarious politics. A conscious elegy of displacement and home regained through the tribute of roads, evoking diasporic conditions by highlighting syncopated language through pixelated imagery and lapidary details the diverse circumstances of being a Black migrant in Africa, Europe, and America. \u003ci\u003eContraband Bodies\u003c\/i\u003e is a cogitation on the agony of Atlantic memories and dispersal. It confronts new forms of digital kinship activated through social waves across diasporic landscape. In \u003ci\u003eContraband Bodies\u003c\/i\u003e, Salawu performs a poetic remittance on current exodus within Africa and outside of it as a form of resistance against all forms of oppression against Black migrant subjects in the world today.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eSalawu, Jide:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cp\u003eJide Salawu is the author of \u003ci\u003ePreface for Leaving Homeland\u003c\/i\u003e published under African Poetry Book Fund, and the co-editor of \u003ci\u003eAfrican Urban Echoes\u003c\/i\u003e published by Griots Lounge Canada. His poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in \u003ci\u003eThe Fiddlehead\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eWalrus\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003ePoetry Pause\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eLiterary Review of Canada\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003ePrairie Schooner\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eRattle\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eTransition\u003c\/i\u003e, and so on. He was a Yosef Wosk Fellow and the recipient of the James Patrick Folinsbee Award for Creative Writing at the University of Alberta. Salawu grew up in Shao, Nigeria, but currently lives in Edmonton, Canada, where he teaches as an assistant lecturer at the English and Film Studies program of the University of Alberta.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"NeWest Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51635464044818,"sku":"9781774391266","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_cdc8c46c-8837-4082-9668-315ec6fe6184.jpg?v=1759237505","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/contraband-bodies-9781774391266","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}