William Alexander Percy : the curious life of a Mississippi planter and sexual freethinker /

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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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Détails bibliographiques
Cote:Libro Electrónico
Auteur principal: Wise, Benjamin E.
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, ©2012.
Sujets:
Percy, William Alexander, > 1885-1942.
Percy, William Alexander, > 1885-1942
1900-1999
Poets, American > 20th century > Biography.
Landowners > Mississippi > Greenville > Biography.
Plantation life > Mississippi > Greenville.
Poètes américains > 20e siècle > Biographies.
Propriétaires fonciers > Mississippi > Greenville > Biographies.
Vie dans les plantations > Mississippi > Greenville.
POETRY > American > General.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Literary.
Landowners
Plantation life
Poets, American
Mississippi > Greenville
collective biographies.
Biographies
Biographies.
Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • 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.

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