The Courting of Marcus Dupree

University Press of Mississippi (Editora)

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At the time of Marcus Dupree’s birth, when Deep South racism was about to crest and shatter against the Civil Rights Movement, Willie Morris journeyed north in a circular transit peculiar to southern writers. His memoir of those years, North Toward Home, became a modern classic. In The Courting of Marcus Dupree he turned again home to Mississippi to write about the small town of Philadelphia and its favorite son, a black high-school quarterback. In Marcus Dupree, Morris found a living emblem of that baroque strain in the American character called “southern.”

Beginning on the summer practice fields, Morris follows Marcus Dupree through each game of his senior varsity year. He talks with the Dupree family, the college recruiters, the coach and the school principal, some of the teachers and townspeople, and, of course, with the young man himself. As the season progresses and the seventeen-year-old Dupree attracts a degree of national attention to Philadelphia neither known

Sobre o Livro

Relato jornalístico de Willie Morris sobre a temporada de futebol escolar de Marcus Dupree na cidade de Philadelphia, Mississippi, com atenção a jogos, treinos e recrutamento universitário.

O livro situa a trajetória de Dupree no contexto social do Sul profundo durante o período das lutas por direitos civis, incluindo entrevistas com a família, treinadores, professores e moradores locais.

Destinado a leitores de literatura regional, estudos culturais e história do esporte, o texto combina narrativa de campo com observações sobre comunidade e mudança social.

Características

Categoria	Biografia
Subcategoria	História regional
Autores	Willie Morris
Sobre o Autor	Willie Morris foi autor de obras sobre o Sul dos Estados Unidos, com publicações de não ficção e memórias.