A Study on the Alienation of Annie Proulx’s Barkskins from the Perspec-tive of Eco-Marxism

Barkskins, Written by Annie Proulx, deeply reveals the ecological crisis in the course of capitalist industrialization. Based on Eco-Marxism Criticism, this pa-per 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 indi-viduals lose their subjectivity and moral value. This paper analyzes the internal relationship between ecological crisis and social crisis under the capi-talist sys-tem. It holds that sustainable development could be realized only by going be-yond the logic of capital and reconstructing the relationship between man, na-ture and society.