{"product_id":"toward-camden-paperback","title":"Toward Camden - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eMercy Romero\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eToward Camden\u003c\/i\u003e, 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. \u003ci\u003eToward Camden\u003c\/i\u003e travels between what official reports say and what the city's vacant lots withhold. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Duke University Press Scholars of Color First Book Award recipient\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eMercy Romero is Associate Professor of American Literature and American Studies at Sonoma State University.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 136\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.3 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e December 17, 2021\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52732602548531,"sku":"9781478014706","price":28.55,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0300\/5595\/6612\/files\/a1Faa0gvWFFwd3ZpMHFURHZ5aXNtUT09.webp?v=1763895807","url":"https:\/\/www.vysn.com\/en-ca\/products\/toward-camden-paperback","provider":"VYSN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}