{"product_id":"melancholia-of-class-a-manifesto-for-the-working-class","title":"Melancholia of Class: A Manifesto for the Working Class","description":"\u003cbody\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eTitle: \u003c\/b\u003eMelancholia of Class: A Manifesto for the Working Class\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor: \u003c\/b\u003eCynthia Cruz\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN: \u003c\/b\u003e9781912248919\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/b\u003eRepeater\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished: \u003c\/b\u003e2021\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding: \u003c\/b\u003ePaperback\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage: \u003c\/b\u003eEnglish\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Note: \u003c\/b\u003eNew from the publisher\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher Description: \u003c\/b\u003e\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\n\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.\u003c\/body\u003e","brand":"Repeater","offers":[{"title":"Melancholia of Class: A Manifesto for the Working Class | Cynthia Cruz | Paperback | 9781912248919 | New | Politics 1285550","offer_id":50550549414146,"sku":"1285550","price":28.82,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0609\/3327\/5906\/files\/71FxBgtw7lL.jpg?v=1790468879","url":"https:\/\/boswellsbooks.com\/products\/melancholia-of-class-a-manifesto-for-the-working-class","provider":"Boswell's Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}