In her discussion Liliana addresses the encounter with traces, images and memories brought to light by the case of the Italian movie Eva Nera; shot in Eritrea in the early fifties and unavailable in the Italian archives. By looking at its multiple status as a lost film and a site of encounters, she explores the shifting movements of bodies and memories which were uncovered, forming an ‘archive in the making’ activated by contemporary trans-Mediterranean mobility.
Liliana explores the re-articulation of colonial tropes of race, sexuality and gender in post-imperial Italy, as well as to acknowledge voices and trans-imperial circuits whitewashed from the history of Italian post-war cinema.
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Liliana has been a research associate at the European University Institute and has taught Cultural History and Women’s and Gender History at the University of Turin.
Situated across diverse areas, including cultural, post-colonial and gender studies, her research has focused on visual and political cultures in Italy, colonialism and racism, anti-colonial and feminist movements. She has edited the new Italian edition of Frantz Fanon I dannati della terra (2001) and co-edited various volumes and journal issues on transnational feminist movements, cultural discourses on Europe and love, and Mediterranean political networks. Her current work explores the coloniality of memory in post-war Italy. Connecting post-imperial cinema, Italian decolonization and anticolonial networks her research focuses on the movie Eva Nera as an archive in the making.
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