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The poems, songs and notes in this book are in a parallel text in Portuguese and English. The editorial introductions are in English only.

Landless Voices in Song and Poetry: The Movimento dos Sem Terra of Brazil
Edited by Else R. P. Viera and Bernard McGuirk

Date of Publication: 1 October 2007

Landless Voices in Song and Poetry is a parallel text (Portuguese-English) which brings to English readers for the first time in book form the vibrant song and poetry of the landless movement of Brazil.


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This landmark anthology brings to an international audience that cultural and political act in which the Sem Terra express their poetry, music, painting and art. The lettered and the unlettered interact in the building of a consciousness of the land struggle. It is a rousing tribute. Bernardo Mançano Fernandes, President, Brazilian Association of Geographers

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Else R. P. Vieira Professor in Brazilian and Comparative Latin American Studies at Queen Mary, University of London. She was formerly Visiting Professor at the Centre for Brazilian Studies, University of Oxford (1999) and a Senior Research Fellow at the University of Nottingham (2001-2). She is the founder of the website The Sights and Images of Dispossession: The Fight for the Land and the Emerging Culture of the MST and Director of the project Screening Exclusion: the Boom of Brazilian and Argentine Documentary Film-Making 2001-2005. She has also edited City of God: Brazilian Social Cinema as Action, published by CCC Press.

Bernard McGuirk Professor of Romance Literatures and Literary Theory and Director of the Centre for the Study of Post-Conflict Cultures at the University of Nottingham. He has published widely on literatures in French, Spanish and Portuguese and his most recent books are Latin American Literature: Symptoms, Risks and Strategies of Poststructuralist Criticism (Routledge) and Poesia de Guerra (Memo). His latest book is Falklands-Malvinas: an Unfinished Business (New Ventures).