{"product_id":"the-melancholia-of-class-cynthia-cruz","title":"The Melancholia of Class (Cynthia Cruz)","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\n\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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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\/div\u003e\u003ch4\u003eAutorenportrait\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cdiv\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.\u003c\/div\u003e\u003ch4\u003eWeitere Angaben\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eBuch (Paperback), Englisch, 228 Seiten\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Weltbild.ch: Bücher \u0026 Outlet","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":63607030055261,"sku":"K091868844","price":14.8,"currency_code":"CHF","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0911\/8915\/0045\/files\/239441-9186884400001A.jpg?v=1771974716","url":"https:\/\/weltbild.ch\/products\/the-melancholia-of-class-cynthia-cruz","provider":"Weltbild.ch: Bücher \u0026 Outlet","version":"1.0","type":"link"}