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ABSTRACT This paper takes readers on a tour of what French geographers call la diagonale du vide. A large band of territory running from the Meuse in the nation’s northeast, through the centre of France and its most forlorn departments like the Creuse and the Limousin, and down to the Landes on the southwest coast, the diagonale is marked by some of France’s most sparsely populated areas.
ABSTRACT This roundtable, held as part of an online workshop in September 2025, explores the renewed literary and cultural interest in rural and peripheral France as well as the new forms of representing place and territory that have emerged in the twenty-first century.
Toledo, Oregon by Ari Blatt - August 12, 2019 Two wild, summer steelhead hold in the pool just above the falls, sixty-five miles upriver from the ocean. They are joined in water by coastal cutthroat trout and crawdads, on land most immediately by a lush evergreen forest, less immediately by clear-cuts and stands of even-aged timber, and in sky by turkey vultures enjoying the uplifts created by this gorge.
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