UID:
almahu_9949702389202882
Format:
1 online resource.
ISBN:
9789004206939
Series Statement:
Brill eBook titles 2011
Content:
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'.
Note:
Preliminary Material /
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Introduction /
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Chapter One. Dissecting The Labouring Body: Frankenstein, Political Anatomy And The Rise Of Ca Pitalism /
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Chapter Two. Marx's Monsters: Vampire-Capital And The Nightmare-World Of Late Capitalism /
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Chapter Three. African Vampires In The Age Of Globalisation /
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Conclusion Ugly Beauty: Monstrous Dreams Of Utopia /
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References /
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Index /
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9789004201576 (hardback : alk. paper)
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9004201572 (hardback : alk. paper)
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9789004206939 (electronic book)
Language:
English
