Keagan Lejeune

Gebundenes Buch

Always for the Underdog

Leather Britches Smith and the Grabow War

Beschreibung

Drawing from newspapers, court records, and a decade of interviews and observation, Keegan LeJeune offers a penetrating examination of the interplay between legend and place. The book also considers how contemporary festivals and other forms of cultural heritage employ legend as a cultural recourse.

Autor

KEAGAN LeJEUNE is Professor of English and Folklore at McNeese State University. Born in Louisiana, he has studied and traveled Louisiana's Neutral Strip for more than a decade and has completed an annotated bibliography of research on the region. LeJeune has served as President of the Louisiana Folklore Society. He lives in Lake Charles, Louisiana.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of North Texas Press
• Seitenzahl: 220
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. November 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 239mm x 160mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 481g
• ISBN-13: 9781574412888
• ISBN-10: 1574412884
• Artikelnr.: 30513171