{"product_id":"the-melancholia-of-class-a-manifesto-for-the-working-class-isbn-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.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTo be working-class in a middle-class world is to be a ghost.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003eExcluded, 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.\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.","brand":"Penguin Random House","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46302242603237,"sku":"NP9781912248919","price":14.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781912248919.jpg?v=1767740463","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/the-melancholia-of-class-a-manifesto-for-the-working-class-isbn-9781912248919","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}