William Alexander Percy [[electronic resource] ] : the curious life of a Mississippi planter and sexual freethinker / / Benjamin E. Wise

• Autore: Wise Benjamin E
• Pubblicazione: Chapel Hill, : University of North Carolina Press, c2012
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (368 p.)
• Disciplina: 811/.52; B
• Soggetto topico: Poets, American - 20th century; Landowners - Mississippi - Greenville; Plantation life - Mississippi - Greenville
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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.
• Sommario/riassunto: 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 promi
• Titolo autorizzato: William Alexander Percy
• ISBN: 1-4696-0190-7; 0-8078-6995-3
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910461725503321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II