Latinx Internationalism and the French Atlantic: Sandra María Esteves in <i>Art contre/against apartheid</i> and Miguel Algarín in “Tangiers”

Abstract This article interrogates the South-South internationalism of two renowned US Latinx poets: Miguel Algarín’s abjection in Morocco his poem “Tangiers” and Sandra María Esteves’s anti-apartheid poetry for French Art contre/against apartheid project, which included controversial participation Jacques Derrida. Although these poems focus on different contexts African liberation, both react to coloniality. For Algarín, Orientalist evocations underage child prostitution operate under a hegemony, coming into crisis when third world alliance fails. In work, her poetic solidarity draws Frantz Fanon’s experience colonization Algeria but also comes Derrida’s foreword is challenged as Eurocentric. engagements with self-determination exhibit residues hegemony undergirding undercutting what I term Latin-African solidarity, their approach enriches postcolonial studies, Latin American, by extension, identities have been sidelined.