Traumatyczne nawiedzenie w neokolonialnym świecie. „Czyj to dom?” w kontekście zwrotu spektralnego.
Traumatic Haunting in the Neocolonial World: His House in the Context of the Spectral Turn

Summary/Abstract: The article analyses Remi Weekes’s film His House (2020) in the context of Jaques Derrida’s hauntology, refugee dis- course, and Achille Mbembe’s nanoracism. The author treats the arrival of refugees from South Sudan to the for- mer Empire (Great Britain) in terms of a traumatic haunt- ing and places the entire film in the paradigm of the turn closely related to hauntological reflection. Weekes’s film can be regarded as a form of exorcism, the aim of which is to work through the experience of colonial and neocolonial trauma. In the author’s approach, hauntology is connected with Freud’s theory of trauma: the work of mourning and the concept of das Unheimliche, which refers to both what is “uncanny” and “un-home-ly.” Spectres – as in Avery Gor- don’s work – are not seen here as a pre-modern supersti- tion or a symptom of individual psychosis but as a social phenomenon of great importance in the neocolonial world. Hauntology – emphasizing the issue of collective responsi- bility for the Other – includes ethics in the project of post- colonial historiography.

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