Finding Aid to the Daisy Zamora papers
Simone Best
Mellon Foundation
The Bancroft Library
2024
The Bancroft Library
University of California
Berkeley, CA 94720-6000
bancref@library.berkeley.edu
Contributing Institution:
The Bancroft Library
Title: Daisy Zamora papers
Creator:
Zamora, Daisy.
Identifier/Call Number: BANC MSS 2010/254
Physical Description:
11 linear feet
(6 cartons, 4 flat boxes, 1 box)
Physical Description:
15 sound cassettes
Date (inclusive): 1958-2005
Abstract: The Daisy Zamora papers document the life and work of a central figure in Nicaraguan poetry, politics, and feminism. The
papers include Zamora's personal and professional correspondence, poetic and political writings, documents of her time in
the FSLN (National Sandinista Liberation Front) in the time leading up to the 1979 revolution and in the subsequent decade
of Sandinista rule, and the literary and political writings of many other notable figures.
Physical Location: Many of the Bancroft Library collections are stored offsite and advance notice may be required for use. For current information
on the location of these materials, please consult the Library's online catalog.
Language of Material: Materials are in Spanish and English.
Conditions Governing Access
Collection is open for research.
Conditions Governing Access
Original archival audiovisual materials are restricted due to fragility. Audio cassette tapes have not yet been digitized.
Digital acess copies are currently in progress. Once the materials have been digitized, researchers will be provided with
instructions to view materials.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
The Daisy Zamora papers were donated to The Bancroft Library by Burton Weiss in 2010.
Arrangement
Arranged mostly to the file level, in some instances arranged to the item level.
Biographical / Historical
Daisy Zamora (born 1950) is a contemporary Nicaraguan poet, political activist, feminist, and teacher, currently living in
California.
Zamora was born to a well-off family in Managua, the capital city of Nicaragua. After obtaining a degree in psychology, Zamora
became involved in 1973 with the Sandinista National Liberation Front (FSLN), an insurrectionist party with a nationalist,
Marxist ideology fighting a guerrilla war against the dictatorship of Anastasio Somoza Debayle. As a Sandinista combatant,
Zamora was involved in the planning of a major victory when, in August 1978, the FSLN captured the National Palace of Nicaragua
with the government in session and took thousands of hostages. During the next year of battle between the Somoza regime and
the FSLN and its militant base of workers, peasants, and students, Zamora and other prominent Sandinistas were forced into
exile, spending time in Honduras, Panama, and Costa Rica. Zamora became the program director for, and voice of, the FSLN's
then-underground radio station, Radio Sandino.
The fall of the dictatorship came when Somoza fled the country on July 17, leaving the FSLN to take power on July 19, 1979.
In the new Sandinista government, Zamora became the Vice Minister of Culture alongside the Minister of Culture, Ernesto Cardenal,
a poet and Catholic priest. The Ministry of Culture promoted a widespread literacy initiative and supported cultural programs
related to Nicaraguan art, literature, theater, dance, and education.
Zamora's own poetry written before, during, and after the Revolution relates to politics, feminism, human rights, and Nicaraguan
and Central American culture and history. She has written many books of poetry in Spanish and English, including Riverbed
of Memory, Clean Slate, Life for Each, La Violenta Espuma [The Violent Foam], Fiel al Corazón [True to the Heart], and El
Encuentro Absoluto [The Absolute Encounter]. Zamora was the editor of the first anthology of Nicaraguan women poets, La Mujer
Nicaragüense en la Poesía [The Nicaraguan Woman in Poetry]. She has also been included in the City Lights Pocket Poets Anthology,
a collection of works by poets published in the legendary Pocket Poets series. She is the author of many political essays
and articles.
After a turbulent, war-torn decade in power, the FSLN was voted out in a 1990 election. Zamora and many other prominent Sandinistas
left the party due to internal divisions and disagreements with Daniel Ortega, the head of the FSLN. In 1995, Zamora joined
with a group of Sandinistas led by Sergio Ramírez to found the Sandinista Renovation Movement, a reform faction of the party.
Under the current government led by Daniel Ortega and Rosario Murillo, Zamora is again in exile and has been unable to return
to Nicaragua since 2020.
Beginning in 1990, Zamora taught literature, art history, culture, and poetry at universities in Nicaragua and the United
States, including Central American University in Managua, University of California, Santa Cruz, and San Francisco State University.
Zamora is married to the writer George Evans, who is himself a poet, as well as the translator of several of Zamora's works,
and the founder and editor of Streetfare Journal, a long-running public literature and arts project.
Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], The Daisy Zamora papers, BANC MSS 2010/254, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.
Processing Information
Processed by Bancroft Library staff in 2024 as part of a Mellon Foundation-funded grant to process archival collections relating
to 20th-century women poets. Processed at Level 4. Collections processed at Level 4 are provided with a collection level description
and a mixed-level (mostly file-level) container listing.
Related Materials
George Evans papers, circa 1970-2003 (BANC MSS 2010/255)
Streetfare Journal records, approximately 1984-1997 (BANC MSS 2010/256)
José Dolores Gámez papers (BANC MSS 2011/161)
Content Description
The Daisy Zamora papers include correspondence, poetry and prose writings, documents, periodicals, and ephemera related to
political, literary, cultural, and feminist activities, and writings by other figures associated with Zamora. The bulk of
the collection relates to Zamora's time as a combatant in the FSLN (Sandinista National Liberation Front) leading up to the
1979 revolution, her subsequent tenure as the Vice Minister of Culture in the new government, her work on women's rights and
feminism, and her own literary output and career as a poet.
The collection has been divided into three series: Correspondence, Writings, and Political Materials.
The Correspondence series includes manuscript correspondence, typescript correspondence, and printed email correspondence.
The bulk of the series consists of incoming correspondence, but folders in this series also contain outgoing correspondence
and other related materials. Zamora's correspondents include other Nicaraguan writers such as Ernesto Cardenal, Vidaluz Meneses,
Gioconda Belli, Sergio Ramírez, Julio Valle Castillo, and Claribel Alegría. Writers working elsewhere in Latin America and
in the United States represented in Zamora's correspondence include Margaret Randall, Marjorie Agosín, Lawrence Ferlinghetti,
and Anselm Hollo.
Zamora's writings in the collection begin with early poetry dating back to her childhood in the late 1950s. Zamora's teenage
writings and artworks are included in several issues of The Herald, a magazine produced by her classmates at Colegio Teresiano
in Managua; a classmate represented alongside Zamora in these magazines is Nora Astorga, who was herself to become a notable
Sandinista. Later writings include Zamora's poetry and prose manuscripts and typescripts, including drafts of unpublished
poetry collections and published works like La Violenta Espuma [The Violent Foam] and Fiel al Corazón [True to the Heart].
Also among Zamora's writings are academic writings and research, many on topics related to Central American history, culture,
and literature. Zamora's writings published in periodicals, anthologies, and other printed works are included in journals,
clippings, and copies of a variety of sources.
The Writings series also includes profiles of and interviews with Zamora, as well as a large amount of publicity, clippings,
and ephemera relating to Zamora's literary output and career, including reading flyers, book reviews, press, clippings, and
other materials related to Zamora's writings and readings.
Also included in the Writings series are literary writings by other writers from throughout the Americas, including June Beer,
Eduardo Galeano, Claudia Bernardi, Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Vidaluz Meneses, Jorge Narváez (a possible
pseudonym of Subcomandante Marcos), Jorge Luis Oviedo, Margaret Randall, and Julio Valle-Castillo.
The Political Materials series includes materials related to Zamora's time as a combatant in the FSLN and as the voice of
the underground Radio Sandino leading up to the 1979 revolution, her subsequent tenure as the Vice Minister of Culture in
the new government, her other departmental and party work during her time in the Sandinista government, her subsequent involvement
with the Sandinista Renovation Movement (MRS) party, and her work on women's rights and feminism during and after this time.
Materials related to the FSLN insurgency during the rule of Anastasio Somoza Debayle include FSLN party literature and news
clippings beginning in 1974. Memos, notes, bills, and other materials document Zamora's involvement in the months leading
up to the Sandinista triumph in July 1979. Also included in Zamora's papers are correspondence, internal and external documents,
and party literature documenting the early days of the new government, with a particular emphasis on documents related to
the literacy campaign instituted across Nicaragua by the FSLN. Also included in this series is a collection of newspapers
from the early days and months of the Revolution. The collection begins with the first issue of Barricada, the official newspaper
of the FSLN, published on July 25, 1979, and includes many other issues of Barricada from July and August of that year.
Materials related to Zamora's time as the Vice Minister of Culture, alongside Minister of Culture Ernesto Cardenal, include
clippings and ephemera related to theater, dance, poetry, and other arts programs sponsored and promoted by the department,
periodicals and literature published by Popular Culture Centers, and correspondence and other internal departmental business.
Also included are 20 issues (the complete run) of Poesía Libre, the Ministry of Culture's literary magazine, and 14 issues
(of an unknown total run) of Nicaráuac, the Ministry of Culture's general magazine.
Zamora's work with the Departamento de Relaciones Internacionales (DRI) and the Instituto de Investigaciones Económicas y
Sociales (INIES) during her time in the Sandinista government is represented by documents and correspondence. Also included
are materials related to the Sandinista Renovation Movement (MRS), officially founded in 1995 in a split from the FSLN leadership
of Daniel Ortega, led by Sergio Ramírez and other prominent Sandinistas including Zamora; these materials date back to 1992
and cover the initial years of the MRS.
Materials related to Zamora's work in the areas of women's rights and feminism cover much of her political and literary career.
Documents include published reports, papers, and books, as well as manuscripts, typescripts, and memos that relate to women's
rights in Nicaragua and throughout Central America, the women's movement more generally, and the intersection of feminism
and Zamora's literary career.
The collection also includes fourteen audio cassette recordings of Zamora speaking on the underground Radio Sandino from May
1979 through July 1979, in the months and days leading up to the FSLN victory.
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Subjects and Indexing Terms
Frente Sandinista de Liberación Nacional
Nicaragua -- Politics and government -- 1979-1990.
Nicaragua
Poetry
Central America
Central American poetry
Women poets, Nicaraguan
Poets, Latin American
Correspondence
1980-2003
Scope and Contents
The correspondence in this series includes manuscript correspondence, typescript correspondence, and printed email correspondence.
The bulk of the series consists of incoming correspondence, but folders in this series also contain outgoing correspondence
and other related materials.
carton 1, folder 1-2
Agosín, Marjorie
1998-2000 and undated
carton 1, folder 3
Alegría, Claribel
1998-2002
carton 1, folder 4
Belli, Gioconda
2000-2003
Scope and Contents
Includes related writings and ephemera.
carton 1, folder 5-8
Bernardi, Claudia
1997-2003
Scope and Contents
Includes related writings and ephemera.
carton 1, folder 9
Berrigan, Sandy
2003
Scope and Contents
Includes related writings.
carton 1, folder 11
Cardenal, Ernesto
1998-2001
carton 1, folder 12
Dalrymple-Hollo, Jane
2001
carton 1, folder 14
England, Terry-Jane
2002 and undated
carton 1, folder 15-16
Ferlinghetti, Lawrence
1990-1998
Scope and Contents
Includes related correspondence with others at City Lights and with Margaret Randall; includes Ferlinghetti's annotations
to poems by Zamora.
carton 1, folder 17
Greenspan, Eliot
1991-1993 and undated
Scope and Contents
Includes writings by Greenspan.
carton 1, folder 18
Greenspan, Eliot and Joseph Richey
undated
Scope and Contents
Missing first page.
carton 1, folder 19
Gutiérrez y Muhs, Gabriella
2002
carton 1, folder 24
Lange Churión, Pedro
1999
carton 1, folder 25-27
Martínez, Demetria
1996-2003
Scope and Contents
Includes related writings and ephemera and material related to the William Joiner Center.
carton 1, folder 28-29
Meneses, Vidaluz
1995-2003
Scope and Contents
Includes related writings.
carton 1, folder 31
Morales, María Esperanza
undated
Scope and Contents
Writing in response to a review by Gustavo Pérez Firmat of Rubén Darío: Selected Writings.
carton 1, folder 34-42
Randall, Margaret
1980-2003
Scope and Contents
Includes related writings and photocopies of charcoal portraits of Zamora and Randall.
carton 1, folder 43
Richey, Joseph (Joe)
2001
carton 1, folder 47
Valle-Castillo, Julio
2002
carton 1, folder 51
Documentation of email correspondence
undated
Writings
1958-2005
Scope and Contents
The materials in this series include writings by Daisy Zamora, as well as publicity, clippings, ephemera, reviews, and other
documents related to the writings and literary career of Daisy Zamora.
Poetry and Prose Writings
1958-2005
carton 1, folder 53
Poetry manuscripts and typescripts
approximately 1960
carton 1, folder 54-55
The Herald, Colegio Teresiano
approximately 1965-1967
Scope and Contents
Contains one published copy of issue No. 5, and ditto copies of two other, unnumbered editions.
A publication of Colegio Teresiano, the Catholic school that Zamora attended in Managua, The Herald contains contributions
from Zamora's classmates and includes both writings and artworks by Zamora. One of Zamora's classmates represented in The
Herald is Nora Astorga, who was also to later become a notable Sandinista.
carton 1, folder 56
Poetry manuscripts and typescripts
1967
carton 1, folder 57-58
Cartas Iniciales, typescript poetry collection, unpublished
1967-1978
Scope and Contents
Note on original housing reads, "several poems missing."
carton 1, folder 59
La Violenta Espuma, mockup and cover design
1981
carton 1, folder 60
"El Fugaz Rayo Verde Tambien Era tu Muerte: Para Julio Cortázar" typescript
1984
carton 1, folder 61
Poetry and translation typescripts
1984-1985 and undated
carton 1, folder 62
"En Limpio se Escribe la Vida" typescript
1980-1985
carton 1, folder 63
"Notas al margen y poemas: Antología" notebook
approximately 1977-1987
Scope and Contents
Bound manuscript notebook.
carton 1, folder 64
"Cantar por el Ejercito Defensor de la Soberanía Nacional" typescript
approximately 1980s
carton 1, folder 65
"Voy a Hablar de mis Mujeres" typescript drafts
approximately 1980s
carton 1, folder 66
Poetry typescripts
approximately 1980s
carton 1, folder 67
Manuscript notes on Central American literature
approximately 1980s
carton 1, folder 68
Translation manuscripts
approximately 1980s
carton 1, folder 69
"La función liberadora de la poesía en Nicaragua" manuscript notes
approximately 1980s
carton 1, folder 70
Manuscript notes on literature
1991-1992
carton 1, folder 71
Prose typescripts
approximately 1991-1992
carton 1, folder 72
French-language poetry and prose manuscripts
approximately 1992
carton 1, folder 73
Manuscript notes on Latin American history and culture
approximately 1992
carton 1, folder 74
Reading copies and notes for recital in "La Buena Nota"
approximately 1992
Scope and Contents
With Vidaluz Meneses and Luis Enrique Mejía (López).
carton 1, folder 75
"Liderazgo Problemas: [Mujeres] y Poder" manuscript notes
approximately 1992
carton 1, folder 76
"Identidad Femenina / Marcela Lagarde" manuscript notes
approximately 1992
carton 1, folder 77
Seminario INCAE, "La Mujer y la Reforma del Código Laboral en Nicaragua" manuscript notes
approximately 1992
carton 1, folder 78
Prose typescripts
approximately 1993-1994
carton 1, folder 79
"La Literatura Escrita por Mujeres" typescript
1994
carton 1, folder 80
"Mujer y Poesía en Nicaragua" typescript
approximately 1994
carton 1, folder 81-83
The Language of Life with Bill Moyers
1995
Scope and Contents
Includes educational materials, correspondence, copies, and other materials related to Zamora's participation in a TV series
about contemporary poets.
carton 1, folder 84
"Qué Significa Ser Escritora en Nicaragua" typescript
1995
carton 1, folder 85
"Rafaela Contreras: Su Importancia" typescript
1995
carton 1, folder 86
"La Ultima Noche" typescript
1995
carton 1, folder 87
Manuscript notes on Nicaraguan arts and culture
approximately 1995
carton 2, folder 1
Manuscript translations
approximately 1990s
carton 2, folder 2
Poetry and translation typescripts
approximately 1990s
carton 2, folder 3
Poetry manuscrpts
approximately 1990s
carton 2, folder 4
Miscellaneous manuscript notes
approximately 1990s
carton 2, folder 5
"Witness to Change: The Empowerment of Nicaraguan Women" typescript
2001
carton 2, folder 6
Sketches and writings for exhibition with Claudia Bernardi
approximately 2002
Scope and Contents
In an unknown hand.
carton 2, folder 7
Poemas de Amor typescript
2003
Scope and Contents
Later published as Fiel al Corazón: Poemas de Amor.
carton 2, folder 8
Prose typescripts
approximately 1997-2000s
carton 2, folder 9
Reading set lists
approximately 1990s-2000s
carton 2, folder 10
Poetry typescripts
approximately 2000s
carton 2, folder 11
Miscellaneous manuscript notes
approximately 2000s
carton 2, folder 12
Typescript translations of poetry by Daisy Zamora
undated
Scope and Contents
Various translators.
carton 2, folder 13
Carlos Fonseca en la Poesía Latinoamericana: Antología, excerpt
undated
Scope and Contents
Includes writings by Daisy Zamora.
carton 2, folder 14-15
Miscellaneous manuscript notes
undated
carton 2, folder 16
Library call slips from Biblioteca Nacional "Rubén Darío"
undated
carton 2, folder 17-37
Published writings
1967-2004 and undated
Scope and Contents
Published writings in these folders include both poetry and prose writings by Zamora published in periodicals, anthologies,
and other printed works. Materials include newspaper clippings, journals, and photocopies of a variety of sources. Arranged
chronologically.
flat_box 4
Nuevo Amanecer Cultural No. 797
1995
Scope and Contents
Includes poems by Daisy Zamora.
flat_box 4
El Nuevo Diario No. 7,100
2000
Scope and Contents
Includes an article by Daisy Zamora.
carton 2, folder 38-40
Writings about Daisy Zamora
approximately 1985-1995
flat_box 4
Broadside: A Feminist Review Vol. 8, No. 1
1986
Scope and Contents
Includes article about Daisy Zamora.
carton 2, folder 41
Interviews with Daisy Zamora
approximately 1980
Scope and Contents
Interviewed by Margaret Randall.
carton 2, folder 42-44
Interviews with Daisy Zamora
1990-2000
flat_box 4
El Semanario No. 292
1996
Scope and Contents
Includes interview with Daisy Zamora.
carton 2, folder 45
Petitions in support of Daisy Zamora
2000
Scope and Contents
Relates to Oscar René Vargas.
carton 2, folder 46-80
Publicity, clippings, and ephemera
1966-2005 and undated
Scope and Contents
Materials in this section relate to Daisy Zamora's literary output and career. Publicity, clippings, and ephemera include
reading flyers, book reviews, press, clippings, and other materials related to Zamora's poetic and prose writings and readings.
Arranged chronologically.
Literary and Cultural Activities
1985-2002
Scope and Contents
Materials in this sub-series relate to Zamora's literary and cultural activities that do not relate directly to her publishing
writings or political positions.
carton 2, folder 81
Poetry Jam for Rubén Darío
1985-1986
carton 2, folder 82
Naropa Institute
1989
Scope and Contents
Includes correspondence with Ernesto Cardenal.
carton 2, folder 83
II Encuentro Continental: Campaña 500 Años de Resistencia Indigena y Popular
1991
carton 2, folder 85
Congreso Centroamericano de Escritores, Encuentro de Escritores Centroamericanos, y II Congreso Internacional de Literatura
Centroamericana
1988-1994
carton 2, folder 86
Publicity and ephemera
1992-1996 and undated
carton 2, folder 87
Hispanic Writing Workshop
1999
carton 2, folder 88
Miscellaneous ephemera and correspondence
1984-2002
carton 2, folder 89
Miscellaneous typescripts
undated
Scope and Contents
Originally housed together and all unidentified.
flat_box 4
Miscellaneous newspapers
1987-1992
Scope and Contents
Newspapers and clippings relate to Zamora's literary and cultural activities.
Letraviva No. 8-9, 1987 (Includes a piece on Central American writers)
Nuevo Amanecer Cultural No. 637, 1992
Nuevo Amanecer Cultural No. 640, 1992 (Inlcudes an interview with Claribel Alegría)
La Tribuna, July 25, 1995
Writings by Others
1973-2003
carton 3, folder 1
Beer, June
1983
Scope and Contents
Poetry typescripts.
carton 3, folder 2
Bender, Sheila
1994
Scope and Contents
Includes rellated correspondence.
carton 3, folder 3-5
Bernardi, Claudia
1992-2000 and undated
Scope and Contents
Includes "Pasa un Angel" ["An Angel Passes By"], poetry typescripts, and prose typescripts.
carton 3, folder 7
Bourke, Eva
undated
Scope and Contents
"La Latitud de Managua" typescript.
carton 3, folder 8
Brand, Dionne
1983
Scope and Contents
"Winter Epigrams & Epigrams to Ernesto Cardenal in Defense of Claudia".
carton 3, folder 9
Cardenal, Ernesto
undated
carton 3, folder 10
Coronel Urtecho, José
1985
Scope and Contents
"Anotación sobre Daysi Zamora y su Poesía" ["Note on Daisy Zamora and her poetry"] manuscript.
carton 3, folder 11
Corriols, Marianela
undated
Scope and Contents
"Conjurando el Silencio" ["Conjuring Silence"] typescript.
carton 3, folder 12
Cuadra Vega, José
1988
Scope and Contents
"Canto a la Virgen Pájara María" typescript.
carton 3, folder 13
Dunbar-Ortiz, Roxanne
undated
Scope and Contents
"Casualties of Terror: A Memoir" typescript.
carton 3, folder 14
Ferlinghetti, Lawrence
2002-2003 and undated
Scope and Contents
Includes related correspondence.
carton 3, folder 15
Fernández Retamar, Roberto
undated
Scope and Contents
Translations of poems by Stephen Spender and Jorge Luis Borges.
carton 3, folder 16
Galeano, Eduardo
approximately 1989-1992
Scope and Contents
"Ser Como Ellos" ["To Be Like Them"] typescript.
carton 3, folder 17
García Lorenzo, Orlando
1988
Scope and Contents
"Con Franca Voz" typescript, with list of interviewees.
carton 3, folder 18
Greenspan, Eliot
1990
Scope and Contents
"Various Commodities" typescript.
carton 3, folder 19
Gudiashvili, Lado
1981
Scope and Contents
Signed broadside in Georgian language.
carton 3, folder 20
Lima de Criollo, Aida
1983
Scope and Contents
Copy of "Cincelando la imagen del amor," inscribed to Daisy Zamora.
carton 3, folder 21
López, Matilde Elena
1975
Scope and Contents
"Alienación en el Arte" typescript.
carton 3, folder 22
Martínez, Demetria
undated
Scope and Contents
"Mexican Rubies" typescript (unpublished).
carton 3, folder 23
Meneses, Vidaluz
approximately 1993
carton 3, folder 24
Murphy, Michael Francis
2001
Scope and Contents
"The Gospel of Amerigua" typescript.
carton 3, folder 25
Najlis, Michele
1973
Scope and Contents
"Una Edad Llamada Contemporanea" typescript.
carton 3, folder 26
Narváez, Jorge
undated
Scope and Contents
Narváez is a possible pseudonym of Rafael Sebastián Guillén Vicente, known as Subcomandante Marcos, a spokesperson of the
Zapatista Army of National Liberation in Mexico. Poetry typescripts.
carton 3, folder 27
Ovares R., Flora, et al.
1979
Scope and Contents
"Acerca del Concepto de Ideología" typescript.
carton 3, folder 28
Oviedo, Jorge Luis
undated
Scope and Contents
Copy of excerpts from "He Muerto en Todas Partes" ["I Have Died Everywhere"].
carton 3, folder 29
Palacios de Vallejo, Nydia
1987
Scope and Contents
"Aproximaciones a la Novela Nicaragüense" ditto.
carton 3, folder 30
Pintado-Espiet, Maribel
1995
Scope and Contents
Translations of selections from "Les Fleurs du Mal" by Charles Baudelaire, typescript.
carton 3, folder 31-32
Randall, Margaret
1991-1994
Scope and Contents
Photocopies of published poetry, poetry typescripts, and poems in English and Spanish with translations by Víctor Rodríguez
Nuñez.
carton 3, folder 33
Richey, Joseph (Joe)
1987-1990
Scope and Contents
"Viajes" ["Travels"] typescript.
carton 3, folder 35
Shaw, Maxine
1998
Scope and Contents
"The Rain Song of the Censontles" ["Los Censontles Cantan por Más Agua"] typescript.
carton 3, folder 36
Valle, Francisco
1996
Scope and Contents
"Prosemas Completos" typescript.
carton 3, folder 37-46
Valle-Castillo, Julio
1973-1993 and undated
Scope and Contents
"Joaquín Pasos o el Mundo Hediondo" typescript, "Pasar en Limpio" typescript, "La Sierra de la Diosa Blanca" typescript, "Nicaragua:
Literatura y Nacion" typescript, "Balada por la Muerte de Firuliche" typescript, "El Barroco en Nicaragua" typescript, "El
Escultor Ernesto Cardenal" typescript (appears to be incomplete), translations by Valle-Castillo of poems by Catullus and
John Keats, and miscellaneous poetry and prose typescripts.
carton 3, folder 47
Unidentified (possibly Julio Valle-Castillo)
1990
Scope and Contents
"La Sopa" typescript.
carton 3, folder 48
Unidentified writers
undated
Political Materials
1974-1997
Revolution
1974-1989
Scope and Contents
The materials in this sub-series have been kept in their original arrangement. With the exception of the newspapers and audio
in this sub-series, all materials were found in a binder labeled "Revolution," arranged in loose chronological order. Original
order has been maintained, with materials separated into folders. Newspapers in this sub-series were not originally housed
with the "Revolution" binder; all newspapers in this sub-series date from the first weeks and months of the Revolution.
carton 4, folder 1
FSLN: Por una Correcta Linea de Masas
1974
carton 4, folder 2
El Sandinista: Organo del FSLN No. 1
1975
carton 4, folder 3
Clippings and documents
1977
carton 4, folder 4
Clippings and documents
1978-1979
carton 4, folder 5
Documents
January 1979 and undated
carton 4, folder 6
Memos and notes
April 1979
carton 4, folder 8
Notes, documents, and correspondence
February 1979-June 1979 and undated
carton 4, folder 9
Notes and documents
July 1979
carton 4, folder 10
Documents
July 1979 and undated
carton 4, folder 11
Testimonial of Dora María Téllez
1979
carton 4, folder 12
Documents and correspondence
August 1979-September 1979
carton 4, folder 13-15
Documents
1979-1981 and undated
carton 4, folder 23
"Por qué nos agrede el Imperialismo!!!", speech given by Bayardo Arce Castaño
1985
Scope and Contents
Speech delivered at the Primer Congreso del Pensamiento Anti-Imperialista.
carton 4, folder 24
Message from the FSLN to the Communist Party of China
1986
carton 4, folder 25
WomaNews Vol. 7, No. 10
1986
Scope and Contents
Features Dora María Téllez and Nicaragua.
carton 4, folder 26
Documents
1987 and undated
carton 4, folder 27
Documents and ephemera
1984-1989 and undated
carton 4, folder 28
Avances Partidarios Año 1, No. 1
1981
carton 4, folder 29
Avances Partidarios Año 1, No. 2
1981
carton 4, folder 30
Avances Partidarios Año 1, No. 3
1981
carton 4, folder 31
Avances Partidarios Año 1, No. 4
1981
carton 4, folder 32
Avances Partidarios No. 5
1982
carton 4, folder 33
La Gaceta: Diario Oficial Año XCIII, No. 121
1989
Scope and Contents
Diario oficial del gobierno de la república de Nicaragua.
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Barricada No. 1
July 25, 1979
Scope and Contents
The official newspaper of the FSLN.
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Barricada No. 2
July 26, 1979
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Barricada No. 3
July 27, 1979
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Barricada No. 4
July 29, 1979
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Barricada No. 5
July 30, 1979
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Barricada No. 6
July 31, 1979
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Barricada No. 7
August 1, 1979
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Barricada No. 8
August 2, 1979
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Barricada No. 9
August 3, 1979
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Barricada No. 10
August 4, 1979
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Barricada No. 13
August 7, 1979
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Barricada No. 14
August 8, 1979
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Barricada No. 15
August 9, 1979
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Barricada No. 17
August 11, 1979
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Barricada No. 18
August 12, 1979
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Barricada No. 20
August 14, 1979
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Barricada No. 21
August 15, 1979
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Barricada No. 22
August 16, 1979
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Barricada No. 23
August 17, 1979
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Barricada No. 105
November 8, 1979
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La Prensa No. 15,388
August 16, 1979
box 1, cassette 15
Misa Campesina Nicaragüense [Nicaraguan Peasants' Mass], Carlos Mejia Godoy
undated
Conditions Governing Access
Original archival audiovisual materials are restricted due to fragility and must be reformatted for research access. Inquire
with Bancroft Public Services regarding the creation of reading room viewing copies of archival audiovisual items in the collection.
Scope and Contents
With note reading "Revolutionary Mass".
Ministry of Culture
1979-1988
Scope and Contents
The materials in this sub-series have been kept in their original arrangement. Materials were found in two binders labeled
"Ministry of Culture" and "Ministry of Culture clippings binder," both arranged in loose chronological order. Original order
has been maintained, and materials separated into folders.
carton 4, folder 36
Instituto Nicaragüense de Cine
1979
carton 4, folder 37
Clippings and ephemera
1979-1980
carton 4, folder 38
Boletín Informativo de los Centros Populares de Cultura No. 1-3; [No. 4]
approximately 1980
carton 4, folder 39-40
Documents and clippings
1980
carton 4, folder 41
Primera Muestra Nacional de Teatro Aficionado, "Arnoldo Quant"
1980
carton 4, folder 42
Documento sobre política cultural
1981
carton 4, folder 44
Ephemera and clippings
1981 and undated
carton 4, folder 45
Teatro Popular Rubén Darío, ephemera and notes for introductory remakrs
1981
carton 4, folder 46
Ediciones del Museo Colección Huella, Centro Popular de Cultura
1981
Scope and Contents
Includes two small-format publications.
carton 4, folder 47-48
Documents
1981 and undated
carton 4, folder 49
Avances de Investigación Documento No. 1
1981
Scope and Contents
"EL CONFLICTA ETNIA-NACION EN NICARAGUA. UN ACERCAMIENTO TEORICO A LA PROBLEMATICA DE LAS MINORIAS ETNICAS DE LA COSTA ATLANTICA."
carton 4, folder 50
Published speeches of Ernesto Cardenal
1981-1982
carton 4, folder 51
Ephemera and clippings
1981-1982 and undated
carton 4, folder 52
Avances de Investigación Documento No. 7
1982
Scope and Contents
"Cerámica de la Gran Nicoya en la Región del Pacífico de Nicaragua."
carton 4, folder 53
II Asamblea Sandinista
approximately 1982
carton 4, folder 54
Clippings
1982 and undated
carton 4, folder 56
Revista Instrannaia Literatura, correspondence and documents
1982
Scope and Contents
Relates to Soviet periodical.
carton 4, folder 57
La Chachalaca No. 1-2
1982
carton 4, folder 58
Ephemera and documents
1982
carton 4, folder 59
"Acta de reunion extraordinaria de los trabajadores de fomento del arte"
1982
carton 5, folder 1
Documents and correspondence
1982 and undated
carton 5, folder 3
Documents and correspondence
1982
carton 5, folder 4
"El sector artesanal en Nicaragua: Su realidad y perspectiva" document
1982
carton 5, folder 5
Documents and correspondence
1983-1984
carton 5, folder 6
Mini-Bibliografía Sobre Rubén Darío
1985
carton 5, folder 9
Correspondence and documents
1987-1989 and undated
carton 5, folder 10-13
Clippings
January 1980-August 1982
Scope and Contents
Items in folders 10-13 were originally housed in a binder labeled "Ministry of Culture clippings binder" and arranged in rough
chronological order. Original order has been maintained and items have been separated into folders.
carton 5, folder 14
Ephemera removed from clippings binder
1980-1987
carton 5, folder 15-28
Nicaráuac: Magazine of the Ministry of Culture No. 1-14
1980-1987
carton 5, folder 29-33
Poesía Libre: Literary Magazine of the Ministry of Culture No. 1-20
1981-1988
carton 5, folder 34
We No. 13
undated
Scope and Contents
This edition dedicated to Poesía Libre.
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Reading folder presented by Ayatollah Khomeini to Ernesto Cardenal
approximately 1979
Scope and Contents
Note enclosed reads:
"This reading folder presented as a gift to Poet Ernesto Cardenal of Nicaragua by Ayatollah Khomeini while Cardenal was visiting
Iran as a representative of Nicaragua (circa 1979)
Daisy Zamora"
Departmental and Party Work
1983-1997
Scope and Contents
This sub-series includes documents, correspondence, clippings, ephemera, and other materials related to the listed governmental
departments and political parties.
carton 6, folder 1
Departamento de Relaciones Internacionales del FLSN (DRI)
1983
carton 6, folder 2-3
Instituto de Investigaciones Económicas y Sociales (INIES)
1984-1985 and undated
carton 6, folder 4-9
Sandinista Renovation Movement (MRS)
1992-1997
Women's Movement and Feminism
1978-1996
carton 6, folder 10
"Algunes reflexiones sobre la mujer Nicaragüense" typescript
1978
carton 6, folder 11
"Avances y logros de la mujer Nicaragüense en la Revolucion Popular Sandinista"
1982
carton 6, folder 12
La Mujer en las Cooperativas Agropecuarias en Nicaragua
1984
carton 6, folder 14
Third International Feminist Book Fair, Kanien'kehá:ka (Mohawk) petition
1988
carton 6, folder 15
Industria, Género y Mujer en Nicaragua
1989
carton 6, folder 16-18
Manuscripts from the Women's Movement
1981-1990 and undated
carton 6, folder 19
Centro de Investigacion para la Accion Femenina (CIPAF)
1989-1990
carton 6, folder 20
Documentos Sobre la Mujer No. 10-11
1990
Scope and Contents
Centro de Investigación de la Realidad de Américalatina (CIRA).
carton 6, folder 21
Registradas en la Historia
1990
carton 6, folder 22
Mujeres: Panorámica de su Participación en Nicaragua
1990
carton 6, folder 23
"Diagnóstico de la Situación de la Mujer en Nicaragua"
1990
Scope and Contents
Agencia Canadiense para el Desarollo Internacional.
carton 6, folder 24
Notes and documents
1989-1991
carton 6, folder 25
Mujeres, Desarrollo y Políticas de Cooperación
1991
carton 6, folder 26
Mujer y Trabajo
1991
Scope and Contents
Centro de Derechos Constitucionales.
carton 6, folder 27
"Bibliografía Sobre la Mujer"
1991
Scope and Contents
Instituto Centroamericano de Administración de Impresas.
carton 6, folder 29
I Encuentro Centroamericano de mujeres
1992
carton 6, folder 30-31
Documents and ephemera
1992
carton 6, folder 32
"Pubis de mujer, palabra de hombre"
1992
Scope and Contents
By Lillián Leví.
carton 6, folder 33
Documents and ephemera
1995-1996
carton 6, folder 34
Primer Seminario Nacional Mujer y Política
1995-1996
carton 6, folder 36
Red de Mujeres Contra la Violencia
1996
Radio Sandino
1979-1984
Conditions Governing Access
Original archival audiovisual materials are restricted due to fragility and must be reformatted for research access. Inquire
with Bancroft Public Services regarding the creation of reading room viewing copies of archival audiovisual items in the collection.
carton 6, folder 37
Radio Sandino clippings
1984
