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Title Tracing Ecopolictics: A Postcolonial Ecocritical Study of Uzma Aslam Khan's The Miraculuous True History Oof Nomi Ali & Muhammad Hanif's Red Birds

Author(s) Mubashar Hassan Arif

Abstract Title: Tracing Ecopolitics: A Postcolonial Ecocritical Study of Uzma Aslam Khan’s The Miraculous True History of Nomi Ali and Muhammad Hanif’s Red Birds This study endeavors to foreground and investigate the against the grain perspective of both the authors regarding the Western militarization and neo imperialism. By engaging both ecocritical and postcolonial theories, the study underscores how the selected works exhibit humans’ intricate relationship with the environment in Pakistani fiction. After much deliberation on this topic opened horizons of other critical aspects among which I have selected the aspect of ecopolitical debate, militarization and weaponization of the desert areas in Red Birds and Andaman Island in The Miraculous True History of Nomi Ali as mentioned in the selected fictional works. Both texts will be analyzed through the lens of Rob Nixon and Elizabeth DeLoughery’s theorization on Postcolonial ecocriticism. Nixon’s concept of Slow Violence has been employed to study both texts and DeLoughery’s conceptualization on postcolonial ecology has been generally dilated upon. Furthermore, the study reveals how environmental degradation manifests itself in the form of contamination of sea waters and insensate killings of animals. The study further avers those human activities cause atmospheric crisis and challenge and subvert the equilibrium of nature. Since ecological damage is not restricted to any specific geographical region, it has colossal global impacts. The textual analysis method proposed by Catherine Belsey has provided me the way forward for completing my research. I have touched upon the military interventions and the consequences of the political gains of the Western imperial powers in the Third world at the expense of nature

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Publication Date 2023-04-10

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