Biopolitics and Environmental Crises; Ecomarxism in '786 Cybercafe'

This present research attempts to examine the novel The 786 Cybercafé (2004) by Bina Shah from ecomarxist and biopolitical perspectives. It outlines the relationship between ecocriticism, marxism and biopolitics. Ecocriticism, a new perspective in literary theories assimilates to marxist literary and cultural criticism. Through the method of textual analysis this study investigates multiple socio-economic, biopolitical conditions and ecological crises of Karachi impacting on the life of individuals by using Marxist point of view as economic lens. Biopolitics contains a number of theories with which new forms and dogmas of communities are investigated in an intricate set up showing the links between life and its governance. Moreover, this study also documents biopolitical competence suggesting an association between the text and the challenging society. It also endeavors to manifest governing apparatuses and social life according to biopolitical parameters.