Beyond 'Roaring Like Lions': Comadrismo, Counternarratives, and the Construction of a Latin American Transnational Subjectivity of Feminism

摘要

This essay introduces comadrismo as a way to highlight the complex relationships between discursive and material counterhegemonic practices, and between voice, victimhood, and agency. Comadrismo explains how a transnational subjectivity of feminism, which I call comadre, enacts counterhegemonic agency in transnational communication systems through a relational framework. I argue that a Latin American comadre subjectivity emerges from a politicized comadre subject. The compadrazco system embeds this politicized comadre subject in a web of kinship and friendship relations, as well as oppressive asymmetrical global structures. Comadrismo frames the critical engagement with the testimonio about the Salvadoran human rights organization, CO-MADRES, attributed to Maria Teresa Tula. The analysis results in an amendment to, and extension of, transnational feminist theory in communication studies.