Keagan LeJeune


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Biography

Keagan LeJeune is an award-winning author of several books, professor of English at McNeese State University, past president of the Louisiana Folklore Society, and former editor of its journal, Louisiana Folklore Miscellany. He has collected stories about Louisiana’s legends for more than 25 years.

 

 


Schedule

2:00 pm to 3:00 pm
State Library, Fifth Floor Serials
In Search of Belonging: Journeys of Self-Discovery
with David Armand, Keagan LeJeune, Jeremy White, and moderator Colleen Hildebrand

3:15 pm to 4:00 pm
Cavalier House Books Tent
Book Signing


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Finding Myself Lost in Louisiana

One writer’s odyssey through Louisiana folklore and history as he searches for the true meaning of home

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.

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