William Alexander Percy : The Curious Life of a Mississippi Planter and Sexual Freethinker /
This biography presents the singular life of William Alexander Percy (1885-1942), a queer plantation owner, poet, and memoirist from Mississippi. Though Percy is best known as a conservative apologist of the southern racial order, this telling creates a complex and surprising portrait of a cultural...
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Chapel Hill :
University of North Carolina Press,
2012.
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Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction: stories of belonging
- The stage of Southern history
- Childhood, remembered queerly
- Sewanee
- Southerner in Europe
- Harvard
- The senator's son
- On love, poetry, and war
- The soldier
- The native and nostalgic poet
- The Klan
- On god, sin, and the Mediterranean
- The flood and after
- Uncle Will
- Samoa, sharecropping, and race
- The autobiographer
- Epilogue: on sex, history, and trespassing.