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From Beneath the Volcano: The Story of a Salvadoran Campesino and His Family

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In 1980 El Salvador used to be plunged into a bloody civil war, and Luis Campos, a peasant farmer, found himself drawn into a deadly political maelstrom of guerrilla fighting for twelve years. In this collection of fascinating and revealing oral histories, Gorkin and Pineda portray the personal and social lives of Luis and his circle of relatives, who for the past eighteen years have been working to rebuild their lives in their new community beneath the Guazapa volcano.

Luis, his mother, his wife, his in-laws, his children, and a few neighbors recall in a simple and incessantly eloquent manner their experiences of on a regular basis life before, throughout, and after the civil war. Nina Bonafacia, Luis’s mother, tells of the days before the war when two of her daughters were murdered and she fled with her circle of relatives to a refugee camp. Julia, Luis’s wife, recounts her life as a guerrillera throughout which, incidentally, she gave birth to the first two of her eight children. Joaquin, a neighbor and comrade-in-arms, discusses how he and others took regulate of the land of Comunidad Guazapa and started rebuilding in those turbulent days and months right after the war. Margarita and Francisco, the two oldest children, with candor and insight discuss the trajectory of their lives and that of the postwar generation. And at the center of some of these stories stands Luis, the guerrillero, farmer, neighbor, husband, father—and raconteur par excellence.

In sum, the more than one voices in From Beneath the Volcano combine to form a rich tapestry displaying a story of war, circle of relatives, and community and provide a never-before-seen view of both the past and present El Salvador.

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