Monsters of the Market
Zombies, Vampires, and Global Capitalism
McNally, David
Date Written: 2012-07-01
Publisher: Haymarket Books, Chicago, USA
Year Published: 2012
Pages: 296pp ISBN: 9781608462339
Library of Congress Number: HB501 Dewey: 330.12/2
Resource Type: Book
Cx Number: CX16272
Drawing on folklore, literature and popular culture, this book links tales of monstrosity from England to 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, McNally offers a novel account of the cultural economy of the global market-system.