A Study on the Alienation of Annie Proulx’s Barkskins from the Perspec-tive of Eco-Marxism
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https://doi.org/10.63313/SSH.9014Keywords:
Barkskins, Eco-Marxism, AlienationAbstract
Barkskins, Written by Annie Proulx, deeply reveals the ecological crisis in the course of capitalist industrialization. Based on Eco-Marxism Criticism, this paper discusses the alienation caused by the capitalist social mechanism in the novel. It argues that capitalists utilize the capitalist of technology using and ecological imperialism to alienate nature into a tool of capital appreciation. The consumption and human nature alienation of capitalist social values make individuals lose their subjectivity and moral value. This paper analyzes the internal relationship between ecological crisis and social crisis under the capi-talist system. It holds that sustainable development could be realized only by going beyond the logic of capital and reconstructing the relationship between man, nature and society.
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