AcknowledgmentsRe-Imagining Class: Intersectional Perspectives on Class Identity and Precarity in Contemporary CultureMichiel Rys and Liesbeth FrançoisPART 1 REDISCOVERING CLASS: CONTINUITIES AND RUPTURES1.1 Writing (for) the Precariat: Mats Teglund’s Cykelbudet (2021) and Pelle Sunvisson’s Svenska palmen (2021)Magnus Nilsson1.2 Making Visible the Invisible: Spanish Post-Crisis FictionChristian ClaessonPART 2 PERSONALISING CLASS: INDIVIDUALS AND COLLECTIVES2.1 The Poetics of Personal Authenticity: Diversity, Intersectionality and the Working Class in Contemporary German LiteratureChristoph Schaub2.2 Narrating the Precariat: Social Wounds in Terézia Mora’s and Wilhelm Genazino’s NovelsOlaf Berwald2.3 “Know Where to Fish”: Class and Gender Precarity and Project-based Networks in Creative and Cultural IndustriesValeria Pulignano, Deborah Dean, Markieta Domecka and Lander VermeerbergenPART 3 NARRATING CLASS: VOICE AND BELONGING3.1 Double(ing) Voices: Narrating Precarious Class Status and Class IdentitiesSula Textor3.2 Obstacles to Leaving, Problems of Arriving: Gender and Genealogy in Contemporary German Narratives of the Social Climber (Christian Baron, Bov Bjerg, Deniz Ohde, Anke Stelling)Irene Husser3.3 Narrating Class and Classlessness in Contemporary British Novels of Black Women’s Social ClimbingKatrin BeckerPART 4 PERFORMING CLASS: MATERIALITY AND AFFECT4.1 Affected by Discomfort: Class and Precarity in Twenty- First Century TheatreMarissia Fragkou4.2 The Redundancy: Playing Production in Academic CapitalismSarah Pogoda4.3 “The View Is Nice, but You Can’t Eat It”: A Poetics of Precarity in Bait (2019, Dir: Mark Jenkin)Daniel BrookesPART 5 CLASS BEYOND THE HUMAN: WORK EXPERIENCES AND THE ANTHROPOCENE5.1 Bare Land: Alienation as Deracination in Anna Tsing and John SteinbeckTim Christiaens5.2 Interspecies Storytelling for Prudent PredationJoeri Verbesselt and Syaman RaponganList of ContributorsUnique cross-cultural and multimedial approach to class identity and precarity in literature, theatre, and filmContemporary culture not merely reflects ongoing societal transformations, it shapes our understanding of rapidly evolving class realities. Literature, theatre, and film urge us to put the question of class back on the agenda, and reconceptualize it through the lens of precarity and intersectionality. Relying on examples from British, French, Spanish, German, American, Swedish and Taiwanese culture, the contributors to this book document a variety of aesthetic strategies in an interdisciplinary dialogue with sociology and political theory. Doing so, this volume demonstrates the myriad ways in which culture opens up new pathways to imagine and re-imagine class as an economic relation, an identity category, and a subjective experience. Situated firmly within current debates about the impact of social mobility, precarious work, intersectional structures of exploitation, and interspecies vulnerability, this volume offers a wide-ranging panorama of contemporary class imaginaries.Contemporary culture not merely reflects ongoing societal transformations, it shapes our understanding of rapidly evolving class realities. Literature, theatre, and film urge us to put the question of class back on the agenda, and reconceptualise it through the lens of precarity and intersectionality. Relying on examples from British, French, Spanish, German, American, Swedish and Taiwanese culture, the contributors to this book document a variety of aesthetic strategies in an interdisciplinary dialogue with sociology and political theory. Doing so, this volume demonstrates the myriad ways in which culture opens up new pathways to imagine and re-imagine class as an economic relation, an identity category, and a subjective experience. Situated firmly within current debates about the impact of social mobility, precarious work, intersectional structures of exploitation, and interspecies vulnerability, this volume offers a wide-ranging analysis of contemporary class imaginaries.