William Alexander Percy
Subtitle: the curious life of a Mississippi planter and sexual freethinker
By: Benjamin E. Wise
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Chapel Hill
Language: eng
Number of pages: 355
ISBN-13: 9780807835357
Subjects: American Poets; Landowners; Biography; Plantation life
Description: In this biography of William Alexander Percy, a queer plantation owner, poet, and memoirist from Mississippi, best known as a conservative apologist of the southern racial order, the author creates a portrait of a cultural relativist, sexual liberationist, and white supremacist. This biography sets Percy's life and search for meaning in the context of his history in the Deep South and his experiences in the gay male world of the early twentieth century.--From book jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: stories of belonging; title: The stage of Southern history; title: Childhood, remembered queerly; title: Sewanee; title: Southerner in Europe; title: Harvard; title: The senator's son; title: On love, poetry, and war; title: The soldier; title: The native and nostalgic poet; title: The Klan; title: On god, sin, and the Mediterranean; title: The flood and after; title: Uncle Will; title: Samoa, sharecropping, and race; title: The autobiographer; title: Epilogue: on sex, history, and trespassing.