An Eco-Marxist reading of Paolo Bacigalupi's the windup girl

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Guided by the Marxist ecological ideology, represented mainly by the ecological writings of Karl Marx, James O'Connor and John Bellamy Foster, the present study aims at investigating the destructiveness of capitalism on the ecosystem in Paolo Bacigalupi's apocalyptic novel, The Windup Girl (2009) with particular emphasis on the devastating effects of capitalist agriculture.

Bacigalupi is an American fantasy and science fiction writer whose debut novel, The Windup Girl, won the Nebula award and the Hugo Award for the best novel in 2010.

A close reading of Bacigalupi's novel from an Eco-Marxist perspective reveals to what extent humans become alienated from nature and to what extent the contradictions of the capitalist systems wipe out their treasure (nature) while pursuing wealth and profit.