... more whole, more lively, more natural, less tragic, less arrested, and less destroyed, she is led into a small archive of a German-Jewish ethnomusicologist by the name of Robert Lachmann, who preserved the past through an Orientalist lens. Using this archival material as a starting point, Manna’s film...

... citizen—this chapter analyzes the photographic archive as the optical unconscious of colonial projects. Drawing on Ann Laura Stoler’s suggestion that the archival researcher’s work is a strategy of “developing historical negatives,” and reading it through Walter Benjamin’s descriptions of the optical...