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ECHOES OF EMPIRE UNVEILING THE POSTCOLONIAL TAPESTRY IN PAUL SCOTTS STAYING ON

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http://dx.doi.org/10.31703/gssr.2024(IX-I).10      10.31703/gssr.2024(IX-I).10      Published : Mar 2024

Echoes of Empire: Unveiling the Postcolonial Tapestry in Paul Scott's Staying On

Abstract

    Paul Scott's Staying On (2005) is one of the few novels that depict the lives of British leftovers who decided to stay in India even after the Independence. Unlike The Raj Quartet (1965-75), Scott's Staying On (2005), highlights the struggle of the White and Euro-Asians in independent India. This paper will investigate the White Men and Women's burden by keeping the themes of identity crisis, socio-cultural displacement, and womanhood in view. Staying On (2005) uses alienation and mimicry to display the hybrid culture of India. It connects the story of the Quartet through the characters of Tusker and Lucy Smalley and how these British remainders struggled to maintain their identity in India. This paper will also study the residual impacts of the British Raj to display the inversion of the roles between the Occident (West) and the Orient (East).

    (1) Fahad Saleem
    Research Scholar, Department of English Literature, Islamia University of Bahawalpur, Punjab, Pakistan.
    (2) Safia Siddiqui
    Assistant Professor, Department of English, Islamia University of Bahawalpur, Punjab, Pakistan.
    (3) Zuha Najeeb:
    Research Scholar, Department of English Literature, Islamia University of Bahawalpur, Punjab, Pakistan.
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    APA : Saleem, F., Siddiqui, S., & Najeeb:, Z. (2024). Echoes of Empire: Unveiling the Postcolonial Tapestry in Paul Scott's Staying On. Global Social Sciences Review, IX(I), 101-109. https://doi.org/10.31703/gssr.2024(IX-I).10

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    CHICAGO : Saleem, Fahad, Safia Siddiqui, and Zuha Najeeb:. 2024. "Echoes of Empire: Unveiling the Postcolonial Tapestry in Paul Scott's Staying On." Global Social Sciences Review, IX (I): 101-109 doi: 10.31703/gssr.2024(IX-I).10

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    HARVARD : SALEEM, F., SIDDIQUI, S. & NAJEEB:, Z. 2024. Echoes of Empire: Unveiling the Postcolonial Tapestry in Paul Scott's Staying On. Global Social Sciences Review, IX, 101-109.

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    MHRA : Saleem, Fahad, Safia Siddiqui, and Zuha Najeeb:. 2024. "Echoes of Empire: Unveiling the Postcolonial Tapestry in Paul Scott's Staying On." Global Social Sciences Review, IX: 101-109

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    MLA : Saleem, Fahad, Safia Siddiqui, and Zuha Najeeb:. "Echoes of Empire: Unveiling the Postcolonial Tapestry in Paul Scott's Staying On." Global Social Sciences Review, IX.I (2024): 101-109 Print.

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    OXFORD : Saleem, Fahad, Siddiqui, Safia, and Najeeb:, Zuha (2024), "Echoes of Empire: Unveiling the Postcolonial Tapestry in Paul Scott's Staying On", Global Social Sciences Review, IX (I), 101-109

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    TURABIAN : Saleem, Fahad, Safia Siddiqui, and Zuha Najeeb:. "Echoes of Empire: Unveiling the Postcolonial Tapestry in Paul Scott's Staying On." Global Social Sciences Review IX, no. I (2024): 101-109. https://doi.org/10.31703/gssr.2024(IX-I).10