The Melancholia of Class: A Manifesto for the Working Class by Cruz, Cynthia
The Melancholia of Class: A Manifesto for the Working Class by Cruz, Cynthia

The Melancholia of Class: A Manifesto for the Working Class

What does it mean to be working-class in a middle-class world? Cynthia Cruz shows us how class...
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The Melancholia of Class: A Manifesto for the Working Class by Cruz, Cynthia

The Melancholia of Class: A Manifesto for the Working Class

$35.50
The Melancholia of Class: A Manifesto for the Working Class by Cruz, Cynthia

The Melancholia of Class: A Manifesto for the Working Class

$35.50
Author: Cynthia Cruz
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Description
What does it mean to be working-class in a middle-class world? Cynthia Cruz shows us how class affects culture and our mental health and what we can do about it -- calling not for assimilation, but for annihilation.

To be working-class in a middle-class world is to be a ghost. Excluded, marginalised, and subjected to violence, the working class is also deemed by those in power to not exist. We are left with a choice between assimilation into middle-class values and culture, leaving our working-class origins behind, or total annihilation.

In The Melancholia of Class, Cynthia Cruz analyses how this choice between assimilation or annihilation has played out in the lives of working-class musicians, artists, writers, and filmmakers -- including Amy Winehouse, Ian Curtis, Jason Molina, Barbara Loden, and many more -- and the resultant Freudian melancholia that ensues when the working-class subject leaves their origins to "become someone," only to find that they lose themselves in the process.

Part memoir, part cultural theory, and part polemic, The Melancholia of Class shows us how we can resist assimilation, uplifting and carrying our working-class origins and communities with us, as we break the barriers of the middle-class world. There are so many of us, all of us waiting. If we came together, who knows what we could do.

Author: Cynthia Cruz
Publisher: Repeater
Published: 07/20/2021
Pages: 228
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.40lbs
Size: 7.70h x 5.10w x 0.70d
ISBN: 9781912248919

About the Author
Cynthia Cruz is the author of six collections of poems: Dregs, How the End Begins, Wunderkammer, The Glimmering Room, Ruin, and Guidebooks for the Dead. Disquieting: Essays on Silence, a collection of critical essays on marginalization and silence, was published by Book*hug in 2019. Her first work of fiction, a novella, Steady Diet of Nothing, is forthcoming. She teaches at the City College of New York and in the MFA Writing Program at Columbia University.
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