{"product_id":"9781608462339","title":"Monsters of the Market: Zombies, Vampires and Global Capitalism","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWinner of the 2012 Isaac and Tamara Deutscher Memorial Prize.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMonsters 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’.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Haymarket Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47050642751728,"sku":"9781608462339","price":28.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781608462339_p0.jpg?v=1763832369","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781608462339","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}