Abstract
ABSTRACTReading Frieda Cassin's 1890 West Indian novel, With Silent Tread, this paper parses the use of tropical contagion to illuminate the colonial haunting of the English motherland. Collapsing fears of miscegenation into fears of leprosy, Cassin illuminates the anxieties surrounding the imperial decline of England and the subsequent infiltration of white creoles from the plantation colonies to their ancestral homeland. Leprosy and the white creole thus both inhabit the position of haunting specters that threateningly resurface in the colonial center. Employing Derrida's work on haunting and spectrality, this paper evaluates the white creole as the uncanny double who haunts and contaminates the idealized white English subject.
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