« A very Great Briton » : Construire la mémoire postcoloniale d’Ignatius Sancho dans Sancho: An Act of Remembrance (2011) et The Secret Diaries of Charles Ignatius Sancho (2022) de Paterson Joseph

This paper examines the ways in which Ignatius Sancho’s life and legacy have been forgotten and remembered in Britain since the end of the eighteenth century. It argues that the paucity of archival material makes way for innovative methods to memorialise Sancho’s unique social trajectory and explore...

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Main Author: Vanessa Alayrac-Fielding
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Language:English
Published: Société d'Etudes Anglo-Américaines des XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles 2024-12-01
Series:XVII-XVIII
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Online Access:https://journals.openedition.org/1718/13114
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« A very Great Briton » : Construire la mémoire postcoloniale d’Ignatius Sancho dans Sancho: An Act of Remembrance (2011) et The Secret Diaries of Charles Ignatius Sancho (2022) de Paterson Joseph
XVII-XVIII
Ignatius Sancho
Paterson Joseph
letters
An Act of Remembrance
The Secret Diaries of Charles Ignatius Sancho
memory
title « A very Great Briton » : Construire la mémoire postcoloniale d’Ignatius Sancho dans Sancho: An Act of Remembrance (2011) et The Secret Diaries of Charles Ignatius Sancho (2022) de Paterson Joseph
title_full « A very Great Briton » : Construire la mémoire postcoloniale d’Ignatius Sancho dans Sancho: An Act of Remembrance (2011) et The Secret Diaries of Charles Ignatius Sancho (2022) de Paterson Joseph
title_fullStr « A very Great Briton » : Construire la mémoire postcoloniale d’Ignatius Sancho dans Sancho: An Act of Remembrance (2011) et The Secret Diaries of Charles Ignatius Sancho (2022) de Paterson Joseph
title_full_unstemmed « A very Great Briton » : Construire la mémoire postcoloniale d’Ignatius Sancho dans Sancho: An Act of Remembrance (2011) et The Secret Diaries of Charles Ignatius Sancho (2022) de Paterson Joseph
title_short « A very Great Briton » : Construire la mémoire postcoloniale d’Ignatius Sancho dans Sancho: An Act of Remembrance (2011) et The Secret Diaries of Charles Ignatius Sancho (2022) de Paterson Joseph
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topic Ignatius Sancho
Paterson Joseph
letters
An Act of Remembrance
The Secret Diaries of Charles Ignatius Sancho
memory
url https://journals.openedition.org/1718/13114
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