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ECOMARXIST STUDY OF KAMALA MARKANDAYAS NECTAR IN A SIEVE 1954

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http://dx.doi.org/10.31703/ger.2022(VII-II).16      10.31703/ger.2022(VII-II).16      Published : Jun 2022

Eco-Marxist Study of Kamala Markandaya's Nectar in a Sieve (1954)

Abstract

    The study aims to expose the capitalist components behind the metabolic rift and economic issues that Kamala Markandaya's novel Nectar in a Sieve (1954) creates. Additionally, this study sheds light on the commodification, objectification, and commodity fetishism of commodities, as well as alienation, degradation due to differences in exchange value and use value, and the alienation of land and labour due to capitalism. This study explains how capitalism emerged, how people suffered and experienced mental unrest, and how the author ultimately felt a need to accept modernity and change (emergence with capitalism). It also foresees the transition from rural to urban life, the emergence of the pure past into the capitalist present, and the eventual glimmer of hope.

    Metabolic rift, Commodification, Commodity Fetishism, Appropriation, Alienation, Monetary Logic, Treadmill of Production

    (1) Tasneem Koser
    PhD Scholar, Department of Englsih, University of Faisalabad, Punjab, Pakistan.
    (2) Saadia Ameer
    PhD Scholar, Department of English, University of Faisalabad, Punjab, Pakistan.
    (3) Hira Yaqoob
    MPhil, Department of English, Government College for Women University Faisalabad, Punjab, Pakistan.
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CHICAGO

    CHICAGO : Koser, Tasneem, Saadia Ameer, and Hira Yaqoob. 2022. "Eco-Marxist Study of Kamala Markandaya's Nectar in a Sieve (1954)." Global Economics Review, VII (II): 180-188 doi: 10.31703/ger.2022(VII-II).16

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    HARVARD : KOSER, T., AMEER, S. & YAQOOB, H. 2022. Eco-Marxist Study of Kamala Markandaya's Nectar in a Sieve (1954). Global Economics Review, VII, 180-188.

MHRA

    MHRA : Koser, Tasneem, Saadia Ameer, and Hira Yaqoob. 2022. "Eco-Marxist Study of Kamala Markandaya's Nectar in a Sieve (1954)." Global Economics Review, VII: 180-188

MLA

    MLA : Koser, Tasneem, Saadia Ameer, and Hira Yaqoob. "Eco-Marxist Study of Kamala Markandaya's Nectar in a Sieve (1954)." Global Economics Review, VII.II (2022): 180-188 Print.

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    OXFORD : Koser, Tasneem, Ameer, Saadia, and Yaqoob, Hira (2022), "Eco-Marxist Study of Kamala Markandaya's Nectar in a Sieve (1954)", Global Economics Review, VII (II), 180-188

TURABIAN

    TURABIAN : Koser, Tasneem, Saadia Ameer, and Hira Yaqoob. "Eco-Marxist Study of Kamala Markandaya's Nectar in a Sieve (1954)." Global Economics Review VII, no. II (2022): 180-188. https://doi.org/10.31703/ger.2022(VII-II).16