Cynthia Cruz, "The Melancholia of Class: A Manifesto for the Working Class"
English | ISBN: 1912248913 | 2021 | 228 pages | MOBI | 482 KB
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.
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,
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