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The Sights and Voices of Dispossession: The Fight for the Land and the Emerging Culture of the MST (The Movement of the Landless Rural Workers of Brazil)

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Culture: Canon of exclusion

Author:

Aracy Cachoeira

Title:

Naked street

Ragamuffin riddled with sainted, twisted thoughts,
Visiting your friend the rubbish dump,
With fleeting glance at dirty cradle
Where you'll slip to sleep at dawn,
If you're not put first to sleep forever
In the name of a security
Of those who can't take risks.
Boy of dreams castrated,
Spawned in the street,
Out of a reality naked and raw,
Out of morality, a tender and just law!

Date:

November 2002

Resource ID:

NAKEDSTR574

Anthology of poems
A first-hand selection, unpublished in Brazil and elsewhere. A militant poetics; the social and political importance of the poet-singer (cantador), the construction of a canon of exclusion; the landless woman; the theme of death as life's horizon; the pedagogic project.
Else R P Vieira

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