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Monsters of the market : zombies, vampires, and global capitalism

By David , McNally

Book information

Publisher
BRILL
Year
2011
ISBN
9004201572, 978-90-04-20157-6, 9781283161336, 1283161338, 9789004206939, 9004206930
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
6 MB (6741723 bytes)
Series
Historical materialism book series 30
Pages
296\308
Time added
2015-12-23 22:00:00
Capitalism -- 21st century. Free enterprise. Globa

Description

Monsters of the Market investigates the rise of capitalism through the prism of the body-panics it arouses. Drawing on folklore, literature and popular culture, the book links tales of monstrosity from early-modern England, including Mary Shelleys Frankenstein, to a spate of recent vampire- and zombie-fables from sub-Saharan Africa, and it connects these to Marxs persistent use of monster-metaphors in his descriptions of capitalism. Reading across these tales of the grotesque, Monsters of the Market offers a novel account of the cultural and corporeal economy of a global market-system. The book thus makes original contributions to political economy, cultural theory, commodification-studies and body-theory

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