02918nam 2200625Ia 450 991079019940332120200520144314.01-4696-0190-70-8078-6995-3(CKB)2670000000159497(EBL)875593(OCoLC)780371017(SSID)ssj0000613154(PQKBManifestationID)11356276(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000613154(PQKBWorkID)10572178(PQKB)11410967(StDuBDS)EDZ0000244024(MdBmJHUP)muse23557(Au-PeEL)EBL875593(CaPaEBR)ebr10539319(CaONFJC)MIL930227(MiAaPQ)EBC875593(EXLCZ)99267000000015949720110921d2012 ub 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrWilliam Alexander Percy[electronic resource] the curious life of a Mississippi planter and sexual freethinker /Benjamin E. WiseChapel Hill University of North Carolina Pressc20121 online resource (368 p.)Description based upon print version of record.1-4696-1910-5 0-8078-3535-8 Includes bibliographical references and index.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.In this evocative biography, Benjamin E. Wise 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, in this telling Wise creates a complex and surprising portrait of a cultural relativist, sexual liberationist, and white supremacist.We follow Percy as he travels from Mississippi around the globe and, always, back again to the Delta. Wise's exploration brings depth and new meaning to Percy's already compelling life story--his promiPoets, American20th centuryBiographyLandownersMississippiGreenvilleBiographyPlantation lifeMississippiGreenvillePoets, AmericanLandownersPlantation life811/.52BWise Benjamin E1570031MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910790199403321William Alexander Percy3843388UNINA