著者

白石 真生

出版者

日本マンガ学会 ; 2002-

雑誌

マンガ研究 = Manga studies

巻号頁・発行日

vol.26, pp.106-126, 2020-03

著者

白石 真生

出版者

社会学研究会

雑誌

ソシオロジ (ISSN:05841380)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.57, no.1, pp.75-91,178, 2012-06-30 (Released:2015-05-13)

参考文献数

28

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This paper examines the theory of hybridization formed by the Mexican cultural theorist Néstor García Canclini. My aim is to highlight the analytical implications that Latin American hybrid cultures have for cultural studies in general, through clarifying the theoretical and political significance of hybridization analyzed in Hybrid Cultures. In the first chapter, I briefly explicate the analytical significance of García Canclini’s theory of hybridization. In the second chapter, I overview the conceptual constellation of popular cultures in British cultural studies and reexamine it from the vantage point of Latin American cultural studies. By doing this, it becomes clear that careful attention must be paid to the ambiguity of both popular cultures and mass culture, and that their interaction must be a focus of cultural analysis. In the third chapter, I take up the phenomenon of hybridization which now blurs the oppositional schema of modern culture. According to García Canclini, hybridization is propelled, on the one hand, by the capacity for appropriation of popular culture, and, on the other, through the mediating force of mass culture which transcends the boundaries and disrupts the purity of modern culture. In the fourth chapter, I locate the possibility of cultural democratization in the hybridization of cultures which is often seen as contamination or degradation. In the fifth and final chapter, I demonstrate the faults of anti-essentialist criticism of hybridity. By so doing, I posit specifically the theoretical possibility of Garcia Canclini’s theory. Although hybridization of cultures is not specific to Latin American societies, only there has it developed to such an extent that it almost breaks down the hierarchy of modern culture. It is the specific potentiality of Latin American modernity to fight against the hegemony of Culture.