Monsters of the Market: Zombies, Vampires and Global CapitalismMonsters of the Market investigates modern capitalism through the prism of the body panics it arouses. Examining Frankenstein, Marx’s Capital and zombie fables from sub-Saharan Africa, it offers a novel account of the cultural and corporeal economy of global capitalism. |
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
Frankenstein Political Anatomy and the Rise of Ca pitalism | 17 |
VampireCapital and the NightmareWorld of Late Capitalism | 113 |
Chapter Three African Vampires in the Age of Globalisation | 175 |
Monstrous Dreams of Utopia | 253 |
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abstract accumulation African anatomists Azaro become Ben Okri blood body-parts bourgeois capital’s capitalist Chapter circuits colonial commodification commodities Coriolanus corporeal corpses Creature critical crucial culture dead death depicts dialectic Dickens discourse dissection early-modern economy emerged enclosure English Enron European exchange exploitation Famished Road fetishism fictitious capital folklore forces Frankenstein genre Geschière global capitalism globalisation Godwin grotesque Hegel horror human idioms images invisible involved labour labour-power labouring bodies land late capitalism Linebaugh living labour Luddite Madame Koto magic Marx Marx’s Mary Shelley material McNally means modern monsters monstrous natural neoliberal Nigeria novel observes occult Okri organised Percy Shelley plebeian poor popular processes production public anatomy radical rebellion relations rich riots ruling class Shelley’s social society spirits stories Sub-Saharan Africa surplus-value things tion transformation Tulp urban use-value vampires Victor Frankenstein wage-labour wealth William Shakespeare witchcraft witches women workers zombie-labourers zombies