Shadows in the Soul: Racial Haunting in the Poetry of Duncan Campbell Scott

cultural geographies essay: Indigenous spectrality and the politics of postcolonial ghost stories

“…Northey 14 argues that, in fact, ghosts have been at the center of nation-building projects in Canada for a long while, beginning in the nineteenth century. In particular, and of relevance to this essay, Bentley 15 argues that ghosts have been instrumental figures in efforts to connect Aboriginality with settler history, creating an aesthetic link between the 'Indian past' and the settler present. The Aboriginal ghost has been used to evoke a generalized sense of history in the Canadian landscape, but always with a sense of linearity and succession.…”