William Alexander Percy: The Curious Life of a Mississippi Planter and Sexual Freethinker
Benjamin E. Wise
Abstract
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—his prominent family's troubled history, his elite educa ... More
Keywords: William Alexander Percy, plantation owner, memoirist, Mississippi, conservative apologist, southern racial order, cultural relativist, sexual liberationist, white supremacist, Deep South
Bibliographic Information
| Print publication date: 2012 | Print ISBN-13: 9780807835357 |
| Published to North Carolina Scholarship Online: July 2014 | DOI:10.5149/9780807869956_wise |
