Monsters of the market : zombies, vampires, and global capitalism / by David McNally.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

McNally, David, 1953-

Series:

Historical materialism book series ; 30.

Historical materialism book series ; 30

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Capitalism--21st century.

Capitalism.

Free enterprise.

Globalization--Economic aspects.

Globalization.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (308 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, c2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Winner of the 2012 Isaac and Tamara Deutscher Memorial Prize. 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 Shelley’s Frankenstein , to a spate of recent vampire- and zombie-fables from sub-Saharan Africa, and it connects these to Marx’s 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’.

Contents:

Preliminary Material / D. McNally

Introduction / D. McNally

Chapter One. Dissecting The Labouring Body: Frankenstein, Political Anatomy And The Rise Of Ca Pitalism / D. McNally

Chapter Two. Marx’s Monsters: Vampire-Capital And The Nightmare-World Of Late Capitalism / D. McNally

Chapter Three. African Vampires In The Age Of Globalisation / D. McNally

Conclusion Ugly Beauty: Monstrous Dreams Of Utopia / D. McNally

References / D. McNally

Index / D. McNally.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-283-16133-8

9786613161338

90-04-20693-0

OCLC:

743693797

Publisher Number:

10.1163/ej.9789004201576.i-296 DOI