Finding myself lost in Louisiana / Keagan LeJeune.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

LeJeune, Keagan, 1972- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

LeJeune, Keagan, 1972-.

LeJeune, Keagan.

Folklore and history--Louisiana.

Folklore and history.

Folklore--Louisiana.

Folklore.

Tales--Louisiana.

Tales.

Louisiana.

Physical Description:

xii, 248 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, [2023]

Summary:

"In Finding Myself Lost in Louisiana, author Keagan LeJeune brilliantly weaves the unusual folklore, landscape, and history of Louisiana along with his own family lineage that begins in 1760 to trace the trajectory of people's lives in the Bayou State. His account confronts the challenging environmental record evident in Louisiana's landscapes. LeJeune also celebrates and memorializes traditions of some underrepresented communities in Louisiana, communities that are vanishing or have vanished-communities including the author's own. Each section in the memoir is a journey to a fascinating place, but it's also a search for LeJeune's own sense of belonging. The book is an adventure and a pilgrimage across Louisiana to explore its future and to reckon with feelings of loss and anxiety accompanying climate disasters. LeJeune travels to Louisiana's geographic center to learn what waits there. He chases the ghosts of Hot Wells, a shuttered healing resort, and he kneels at the tomb of folk saint Charlene Richard. With every adventure, every memory, he ends up much closer to home"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Acknowledgments

Preface

1. Homesick at home

2. The only time Ben Lilly was ever lost

3. Mister Unlucky, Mister Nobody

4. Into a far country . . . close at home

5. At the shores of eternity

6. Jack and me and Coochie Brake

7. The Little Cajun Saint and the closed-down resort

8. Land in the slow making

Epilogue: no matter where you go, there you are

Notes.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Other Format:

Online version: LeJeune, Keagan. Finding myself lost in Louisiana

ISBN:

9781496847331

1496847334

9781496850331

1496850335

OCLC:

1378362869

Publisher Number:

99994613491