The Melancholia of Class
A Manifesto for the Working Class
$26.41
- Paperback
228 pages
- Release Date
15 September 2021
Summary
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.…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781912248919 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 1912248913 |
| Author: | Cynthia Cruz |
| Publisher: | Watkins Media Limited |
| Imprint: | Repeater Books |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 228 |
| Release Date: | 15 September 2021 |
| Weight: | 214g |
| Dimensions: | 23mm x 155mm x 197mm |
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Critics Review
“This is a vital book, deeply personal and charged with the kind of wisdom and solidarity that only belongs to those who understand what it feels like to be overlooked and left behind.”
“An unprecedented reckoning with class and poverty as it relates to creative life in the modern age. Cruz forges a merciful new footing to state what’s long overdue: that many of us have been dying while we write, and that the sorrow of surviving poverty, if at all, is a grief finally named in this courageous and deeply true work.”
Cynthia Cruz
Cynthia Cruz is the author of six collections of poems:
- Dregs
- How the End Begins
- Wunderkammer
- The Glimmering Room
- Ruin
- Guidebooks for the Dead
Her collection of critical essays, Disquieting: Essays on Silence, exploring themes of marginalization and silence, was published in 2019. Her first work of fiction, the 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.
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