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This essay examines postcolonial melancholia in Paul Scott’s Staying On, winner of the Man Booker Prize in 1977. Paul Gilroy has theorized ‘postcolonial melancholia’ as postimperial Britain’s pathological attempt to restore the fantasy of British greatness, or the consequence of its failure to properly mourn the loss of empire. Slavoj Žižek has explained that the melancholic confuses lack with loss; the melancholic ego interprets lack as a loss as if he once possessed the lacking object and then lost it. Borrowing Gilroy’s and Žižek's conceptions, I suggest that Staying On offers an allegorical description of a melancholic reaction to “Britain’s postcolonial conditions” (Gilroy 98). Staying On depicts the very last days of a permanent British resident and his wife in India who have chosen not to return to England after the demise of the Raj. As the novel begins with his death and traces back his last days, it is a fundamentally melancholic text despite its overall comic tone. I pay particular attention to his over-identification with India as it used to be, his inability to face the failure of British empire, and the wife's anxiety over being the last white resident in India. My major contention is that the English couple is nostalgic for the imagined past that would prove the greatness of British empire, the loss of which cannot be properly mourned precisely because it never really existed.
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Badiger, V.R / 1994 / Paul Scott: His Art and Vision / The Publishers
Colwell, Danny / 1996 / Writing India 1757-1990: The Literature of British India / Manchester UP :213~235
Freud, Sigmund / 1985 / On Metapsychology: The Theory of Psychoanalysis / Penguin :251~268
Gilroy, Paul / 2005 / Postcolonial Melancholia / Columbia UP
Gorra, Michael / 1997 / After Empire: Scott, Naipaul, Rushdie / U of Chicago P :15~61
Colwell, Danny / 1996 / Writing India 1757-1990: The Literature of British India / Manchester UP :213~235
Freud, Sigmund / 1985 / On Metapsychology: The Theory of Psychoanalysis / Penguin :251~268
Gilroy, Paul / 2005 / Postcolonial Melancholia / Columbia UP
Gorra, Michael / 1997 / After Empire: Scott, Naipaul, Rushdie / U of Chicago P :15~61
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