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Chapter 2 - Latinx Internationalism, French Orientalism, and a Nuyorican Morocco

from Part I - Space

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 April 2025

By
Sarah M. Quesada
Edited by
John Alba Cutler  and
Marissa López
John Alba Cutler
Affiliation:
University of California, Berkeley
Marissa López
Affiliation:
University of California, Los Angeles
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Summary

This chapter interrogates the South–South internationalism of renowned US Nuyorican poet Miguel Algarín. It argues that the abjection in Morocco featured in his poem “Tangiers” reacts to French coloniality. More specifically, Algarín’s Orientalist evocations of underage child prostitution operate under a French hegemony, coming into crisis when a Third World alliance fails. Although his engagement with African self-determination exhibits residues of a French hegemony undergirding and undercutting what I term a poetic Latin-African solidarity, his South–South approach enriches postcolonial studies, in which Latin American – and, by extension, Latinx – identities have been sidelined.

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internationalismGlobal SouthThird World solidarityorientalismFrantz FanonMoroccodecolonization
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Latinx Literature in Transition, 1848–1992 , pp. 37 - 53
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2025

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