Ebook: Monsters of the market : zombies, vampires, and global capitalism
Author: McNally David
- Tags: Capitalism -- 21st century. Free enterprise. Globalization -- Economic aspects. Business. BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Free Enterprise. Capitalism.
- Series: Historical materialism book series 30
- Year: 2011
- Publisher: Brill
- City: Boston, Leiden
- Language: English
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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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