{"product_id":"the-melancholia-of-class-a-manifesto-for-the-working-class-9781912248919","title":"The Melancholia of Class: A Manifesto for the Working Class","description":"\u003cb\u003eWhat 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.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eTo 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.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eThe Melancholia of Class\u003c\/i\u003e, 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003ePart memoir, part cultural theory, and part polemic, \u003ci\u003eThe Melancholia of Class\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCynthia 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.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Repeater","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51966982652178,"sku":"9781912248919","price":10.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_2b4031a1-12f6-4549-8680-271df611a0a2.jpg?v=1768917751","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-melancholia-of-class-a-manifesto-for-the-working-class-9781912248919","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}