Abstract
Dickens's works, like those of many of his contemporaries, are haunted by Europe's racial other(s). Taking A Tale of Two Cities and "A Christmas Tree" as its primary examples, this paper traces how the racial imagination prefigures characters, subjectivities and narratives in a manner that produces the Other as the double subject of fascination and horror. Informed by anticolonial critique and Freudian psychoanalysis, this paper moves beyond the calling out of Dickens's racism to reading the ways whereby fascination with the Other resolves, in the Dickensian text, the repression that produces racial horror.
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