Toward Camden by Mercy Romero

Toward Camden by Mercy Romero

In Toward Camden, Mercy Romero writes a complex and vibrant story about the largely African American and Puerto Rican Cramer Hill neighborhood in New Jersey where she grew up.

“Mercy Romero’s Toward Camden is a profoundly moving and necessary meditation on Camden, a city marked by abandonment, dispossession, and resistanceIn weaving familial narratives with the lives and deaths in and of Camden, Romero opens possibilities for us to consider the cultural geographies of a city and a people attending to survival. A tender, haunting, and critical work, Toward Camden has implications for our considerations of home, capitalism, gentrification, loss, and love.” - Yomaira C. Figueroa-Vásquez, author of (Decolonizing Diasporas: Radical Mappings of Afro-Atlantic Literature) “I've been waiting for Mercy Romero's book all of my life. Camden is home to my family, but there have been too few writers who have turned to it as a city worthy of deep and loving observation. Toward Camden is a response to that erasure. And it won't be soon forgotten.” - Darnell L. Moore, author of (No Ashes in the Fire: Coming of Age Black and Free in America) "Romero . . .  combines incisive political commentary, cultural criticism, and memoir in her vibrant debut, a collection of essays about her hometown of Camden, N.J. . . . Elegiac yet hopeful, this meditation is full of power." (Publishers Weekly) "Romero joins a rare breed of writers who manage to convert hardship to healing, and isolation to more universal truths. Readers who chose to move toward Camden with Romero will be rewarded, not with a full explanation for what they encounter, but with an appreciation for how the human resilience she recounts and displays can be an inspiration for us all." - Howard Gillette Jr. (New Jersey Studies)

Mercy Romero is Associate Professor of American Literature and American Studies at Sonoma State University.

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ISBN 13	9781478013785
ISBN 10	1478013788
Title	Toward Camden
Author	Mercy Romero
Series	Black Outdoors: Innovations In The Poetics Of Study
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Duke University Press
Year published	2021-12-17
Number of pages	136
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