. The Autobiogr Apher
. The Autobiogr Apher
Percy wrote his autobiography, Lanterns on the Levee, in an era when he could expect public recrimination and possibly censorship if he were to write fully about his life experience. Lanterns on the Levee emerged as a book in which a love of the South and a love of family stand alongside a celebration of Greek sexuality and a coded narration of sexual awakening. The tone of the book is elegiac and even mournful in parts. In other moments, it is funny, whimsical, and affirming.
Keywords: Percy, autobiography, Lanterns, Levee, public recrimination, censorship, South, family, sexuality, sexual awakening
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