Narrating The Climate Crisis In Pakistan: A Study Of Environmental Degradation In Awais Khan’s Someone Like Her and No Honour

Abstract

The study focuses on the representation of environmental degradation in Awais Khan's works, No Honour and Someone Like Her, from the perspective of David Wallace-Wells' climate-urgency discourse. The study will use textual analysis of Alan McKee as a method for gathering data from the selected text. The research explores how the novel portrays ecological deterioration in Pakistan through images of a polluted urban environment, garbage accumulation, toxic air, and extreme heat. The paper also highlights how these environmental conditions affect the lives of different characters in the novels. The study addresses two research questions: how do both novels depict the physical manifestations of environmental degradation in Pakistan, and do these novels, through the work of David Wallace-Welles, challenge the global narratives of climate urgency? The theoretical framework for this study is grounded in Wallace-Welles' argument that climate catastrophe is a lived reality rather than a distant future threat. The significance of this research lies in its contribution to Pakistani ecocritical studies by foregrounding environmental injustice and climate anxiety within contemporary Pakistani fiction. The findings foreground that Awais Khan presents environmental challenges as an active force shaping social exclusion and human suffering