Marxism and 20th-Century English-Canadian Novels A New Approach to S
This monograph is the first academic work to apply a neo-Marxist approach to 20th-century Canadian social realist novels, pursuing a refreshingly (neo-)Marxist approach to such issues as Bakhtinian notions of the novelistic form and dialogism as applied t
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ism and 20th-Century EnglishCanadian Novels A New Approach to Social Realism
Marxism and 20th-Century English-Canadian Novels
John Z. Ming Chen • Yuhua Ji
Marxism and 20th-Century English-Canadian Novels A New Approach to Social Realism
John Z. Ming Chen College of Foreign Languages and Cultures Xiamen University Xiamen, China
Yuhua Ji College of Foreign Languages and Cultures Xiamen University Xiamen, China
ISBN 978-3-662-46349-9 ISBN 978-3-662-46350-5 DOI 10.1007/978-3-662-46350-5
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Preface
Marxism and World Literature The last two decades have witnessed an unprecedented revival of interest in globalized Marxism. This revival has recently been made all the more robust and sustained by four key major events or factors on the world scene. First is the (re)current and on-going capitalist economic depression or even crisis, according to some, across the globe. This global depression started with the housing markets and financial institutions in the United States in 2008; it continues to deepen and widen elsewhere, affecting even socialist China that has once been enjoying a healthy annual increase of the GDP of up to 13 % for consecutive years. In particular, such a sustained global economic catastrophe reminiscent of the 1930s seems to have marked the beginning of an epoch of reasonable skepticism about the legitimacy and longevity of capitalism: both the general populace and critical thinkers have started thinking seriously about the implications of cyclical capitalist crises predicted by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels over a century and a half ago. In the 2004 Capitalism: A Very Short Introduction, James F
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