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Title Distortion of Ecosphere and its Effects: an Ecocritical Study of Uzma Aslam Khan’s Trespassing and Thinner than Skin

Author(s) Aqsa Javed

Abstract A balanced ecosphere is significant for a healthy cycle of life. The environmental condition across the globe is getting worse day by day. Hazards of global warming and pollution are affecting the ecosphere drastically. Environmentalists take these hazards as the cause of retaliation of nature in the form of floods, storms, famine etc. The research in hand is an ecocritical study of Uzma Aslam Khan’s contemporary novels Trespassing and Thinner than Skin. The texts highlight the atmospheric crisis that lurks across Pakistan. The purpose of the study is to support the contention that the unhealthy activities of human beings pollute their environment and mental health. It also aims to support the notion that human beings are intruder in the natural world as they try to challenge the equilibrium of the natural world. The study further explores the animate nature of nature whereby nature either becomes ferocious or benevolent. At the same time, the novels draw upon a relation between human’s culture and their ecosystem that is why the chosen theoretical framework is Cheryll Glotfelty’s principles of ecocriticism. The theory rejects the view about nature as a social construction. Nature is usually considered as a marginalized subject that is brought up to the centre by ecocritics to understand the mutual/symbiotic relationship of nature and culture of human beings. Textual analysis as a method links the series of events in the chosen texts with the ideologies propounded by Glotfelty. The story of Trespassing revolves around the production of silk. Through an ecocritical gaze, for example, it becomes easy to understand that how the manufacturing of cloth leads towards the death of innocent worms. A large portion of Trespassing revolves around the animal world like silk worm and marine life. Similarly, Thinner than Skin is set in the northern areas of Pakistan. This beauty is distorted and abused by the intrusion of human beings. The study becomes significant in realizing the fact that the environmental crisis is not limited to certain geographical regions, it has become a global concern. Also, human beings should amend their ways to restore the balance in the ecosphere.

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Publication Date 2019-01-14

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