Abstract:
As a new literary critical school after eco-feminism and post-colonialism, eco-Marxist criticism, is the "reddening" of eco-criticism, and the "greening" of Marxism as well. By putting literary studies in context of classism and eco-crisis, eco-Marxist criticism attacks anthropocentrism and eco-centrism, and criticizes the capitalist system and ecological imperialism. Reconsidering literature and human culture by relating class, nature, literature and culture to each other, it aims to change the position of nature and working class as the other, arouse people's ecological, environmental and social consciousness, so as to construct a communist society where human and nature, human and society maintain a harmonious co-existence. The birth of eco-Marxist criticism mingles natural ecology and human society, improves eco-criticism's human attribute, and therefore opens broader academic space for both of them.