| Description |
1 online resource (x, 355 pages) : illustrations |
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text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
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. |
| Summary |
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 relativist, sexual liberationist, and white supremacist. We follow him as he travels from Mississippi around the globe and, always, back again to the Delta. This exploration brings depth and new meaning to Percy's already compelling life story. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Percy, William Alexander, 1885-1942.
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Percy, William Alexander, 1885-1942. |
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Percy, William Alexander, 1885-1942. |
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Poets, American -- 20th century -- Biography.
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Poets, American. |
| Chronological Term |
20th century |
| Genre/Form |
Biographies.
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| Subject |
Landowners -- Mississippi -- Greenville -- Biography.
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Landowners. |
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Mississippi -- Greenville. |
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Plantation life -- Mississippi -- Greenville.
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Plantation life. |
| Chronological Term |
1900 - 1999 |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Biographies.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: 9780807835357 0807835358 (DLC) 2011036531 |
| ISBN |
0807869953 (electronic book) |
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9780807869956 (electronic book) |
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9781469601908 (electronic book) |
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1469601907 (electronic book) |
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9780807835357 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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0807835358 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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