In Toward Camden, Mercy Romero writes about the relationships that make and sustain the largely African American and Puerto Rican Cramer Hill neighborhood in New Jersey where she grew up. She walks the city and writes outdoors to think about the collapse and transformation of property. She revisits lost and empty houses--her family's house, the Walt Whitman House, and the landscape of a vacant lot. Throughout, Romero engages with the aesthetics of fragment and ruin; her writing juts against idioms of redevelopment. She resists narratives of the city that are inextricable from crime and decline and witnesses everyday lives lived at the intersection of spatial and Puerto Rican diasporic memory. Toward Camden travels between what official reports say and what the city's vacant lots withhold. Duke University Press Scholars of Color First Book Award recipient
Detalles
Formato
Tapa suave
Número de Páginas
136
Lenguaje
Inglés
Editorial
Duke University Press
Fecha de Publicación
2021-12-17
Dimensiones
9.0" x 6.0" x 0.3" pulgadas
Serie
Black Outdoors: Innovations in the Poetics of Study
Letra Grande
No
Con Ilustraciones
No
Temas
Hispano, Urbano
Acerca del Autor
Mercy Romero is Associate Professor of American Literature and American Studies at Sonoma State University.
Descripción
In Toward Camden, Mercy Romero writes about the relationships that make and sustain the largely African American and Puerto Rican Cramer Hill neighborhood in New Jersey where she grew up. She walks the city and writes outdoors to think about the collapse and transformation of property. She revisits lost and empty houses--her family's house, the Walt Whitman House, and the landscape of a vacant lot. Throughout, Romero engages with the aesthetics of fragment and ruin; her writing juts against idioms of redevelopment. She resists narratives of the city that are inextricable from crime and decline and witnesses everyday lives lived at the intersection of spatial and Puerto Rican diasporic memory. Toward Camden travels between what official reports say and what the city's vacant lots withhold. Duke University Press Scholars of Color First Book Award recipient
Detalles
Formato
Tapa dura
Número de Páginas
136
Lenguaje
Inglés
Editorial
Duke University Press
Fecha de Publicación
2021-12-17
Serie
Black Outdoors: Innovations in the Poetics of Study
Letra Grande
No
Con Ilustraciones
Si
Temas
Hispano, Urbano
Acerca del Autor
Mercy Romero is Associate Professor of American Literature and American Studies at Sonoma State University.
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