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Number 149/150 of Yale French Studies investigates landscape relationally, as a way of being, vernacular improvisation, gathering of textures, terrain of extraction and resistance

Double issue Number 149/150 of Yale French Studies examines the vistas that emerge when we set aside familiar aesthetic conceptions of "nature" (forests, mountains, gardens) and consider instead a variety of stranger landscapes-spaces forgotten or unexplored, deserts, littoral edges, industrial and postindustrial terrain, matter made radiant by nuclear toxicity, and wastes. Contributors to this collection engage landscape as something other than a mere view, backdrop, or container for a person. Their contributions reflect the strange uses to which lands, waters, and skies have been put throughout and beyond the former French empire. Temporally, geographically, and methodologically, the issue is wide-ranging and diverse: it spans topics as varied as the poetics of medieval tree grafting, the desolation and resistance of sixteenth-century New World mines, the ghostly "elephant-landscapes" of French modernist fiction, and the "broiling favelas" of a Caribbean post-humanist near-future. Likewise, the articles gathered here consider richly divergent genres and objects, including travel narratives, novels, multimedia installations, sculpture, photography, architectural ruins, postapocalyptic cinema, and documentary film.