Dr. Miranda Kaufmann
@MirandaKaufmann
Historian @ICwS_SAS, @LivUni, @BlackBritHist #WHBBH @ColonialCountr1. Author: #BlackTudors (https://t.co/WIJZdxrLkS). Rugby Blue. Now: Caribbean #Heiresses
19-07-2009 08:00:21
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Delighted to see Ignatius Sancho get a mention in Salman Rushdie ‘s The Booker Prizes shortlisted 2019 novel #Quichotte -loved Paterson Joseph ‘s play about him and looking forward to the novel, which I just heard about on The BP2 Podcast with Michael I. Ohajuru DUniv, FRSA anchor.fm/the-bp2-podcas…
Would love to know whether Salman Rushdie had known about Ignatius for years or whether/where he came across him while thinking about his character named after Cervantes’s Sancho?
Dr. Miranda Kaufmann Salman Rushdie I'd be amazed if he hadn't known about him for many decades. Pretty sure Rushdie was one of the quotes on my original 1984 copy of Staying Power. Can't check because I gave it away & not at home to look up my later edition.