{"product_id":"the-melancholia-of-class-cynthia-cruz-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\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Cynthia Cruz\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1912248913\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781912248919\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Repeater\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/20\/2021\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 228\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.40lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.70h x 5.10w x 0.70d","brand":"Cynthia Cruz","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44051287867647,"sku":"9781912248919","price":14.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_8f08ac0d-e856-4e57-8a13-5acfec4d2bde.jpg?v=1685012197","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-melancholia-of-class-cynthia-cruz-9781912248919","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}