Title
Thanks to God and the Revolution : the oral history of a Nicaraguan family.
Role
Dianne Walta Hart.
Files
Document Type
Book
Description/Summary
In a restaurant in Estelí, Nicaragua, Dianne Walta Hart, a visiting American scholar, and Marta Lopez, member of a Nicaraguan women's organization, began to talk of the Sandinista revolution and of the changes it had brought, especially for women. Their conversation was to continue at intervals over the next four years; it expanded to include Marta's mother, Doña María, her sister, Leticia, and her brother, Omar, a Sandinista soldier. From these conversations has come the powerful and moving oral history of a Nicaraguan family in the twentieth century: a testimonial by ordinary people caught up in civil strife and living in a country devastated by war and inflation. Laying bare the inner workings of the Lopez family, Dianne Walta Hart evokes a picture of a close-knit and loving family. Tracing their story from the years of repression and guerrilla activity under Somoza through an era of personal and political revolution in the 1970s and 1980s, she shows people persevering against every kind of adversity.
ISBN
9780299126100
Publication Date
1-1-1990
Publication Information
Hart, Dianne Walta, Thanks to God and the Revolution: the oral history of a Nicaraguan family. Madison, Wis. : University of Wisconsin Press, c1990.
Rights
Copyright: University of Wisconsin Press, c1990.
Recommended Citation
Hart, Dianne Walta, "Thanks to God and the Revolution : the oral history of a Nicaraguan family." (1990). Walter J. Petry Book Gallery. 275.
https://digitalcommons.fairfield.edu/petry-books/275