Melancholia of Class Cruz Cynthia
Melancholia of Class Cruz Cynthia What does it mean to be working-class in a middle-class world? Excluded, marginalised, and subjected to violence, the working class is also deemed by those in power…
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Melancholia of Class Cruz Cynthia
What does it mean to be working-class in a middle-class world? Excluded, marginalised, and subjected to violence, the working class is also deemed by those in power to not exist. 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.To be working-class in a middle-class world is to be a ghost.
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