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Lancashire Hodge-Podge: Reading the John Rylands Library through the Concept of Hybridity
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Postcolonial theory has yielded productive methodologies with which to examine an
institution such as the John Rylands Library. This paper reinterprets aspects of
the Library‘s history, especially its collecting practices, using Bhabha‘s
concept of hybridity. The Library‘s founder, Enriqueta Rylands, embodied
hybridity and colonial talking back in her remarkable trajectory from a Catholic
upbringing in Cuba, via her conversion to Nonconformity and her marriage to
Manchester‘s most successful cotton manufacturer, to her usurpation of the
cultural hegemony in purchasing spectacular aristocratic collections for her
foundation. Hybridity was embedded in many other aspects of the Library‘s
development: it was established as a public library with a board of governors
but its collections were largely shaped by Enriqueta‘s tastes and interests; it
was independent until 1972, while maintaining very close links to the University
of Manchester; it has always fulfilled a dual remit of addressing the research
needs of scholars and attracting wider audiences; and it is simultaneously a
library of printed books and manuscripts, an archive repository, and a gallery
of visual materials.
Title: Lancashire Hodge-Podge: Reading the John Rylands Library through the Concept of Hybridity
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Postcolonial theory has yielded productive methodologies with which to examine an
institution such as the John Rylands Library.
This paper reinterprets aspects of
the Library‘s history, especially its collecting practices, using Bhabha‘s
concept of hybridity.
The Library‘s founder, Enriqueta Rylands, embodied
hybridity and colonial talking back in her remarkable trajectory from a Catholic
upbringing in Cuba, via her conversion to Nonconformity and her marriage to
Manchester‘s most successful cotton manufacturer, to her usurpation of the
cultural hegemony in purchasing spectacular aristocratic collections for her
foundation.
Hybridity was embedded in many other aspects of the Library‘s
development: it was established as a public library with a board of governors
but its collections were largely shaped by Enriqueta‘s tastes and interests; it
was independent until 1972, while maintaining very close links to the University
of Manchester; it has always fulfilled a dual remit of addressing the research
needs of scholars and attracting wider audiences; and it is simultaneously a
library of printed books and manuscripts, an archive repository, and a gallery
of visual materials.
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