The overall idea of the book is to provide perspectives in Canadian Studies from researchers in the Nordic and Baltic countries, which share common realities with Canada (Northern location, multilingualism, etc.) but are also distant enough to account for the representations of Canadian culture and analyze them in detail. The chapters are written by specialists in arts and humanities, who focus on central topics to Canadian Studies from their respective fields and the theoretical frameworks that they provide.

Two chapters address contemporary cultural productions of the First Nations that reinscribe the presence of these nations in Canadian history. One chapter focuses on Canadian bilingual language-learning policies through a comparative lens that takes Latvia and Estonia as Baltic counterparts. One chapter explores the riddle practices of Newfoundland while another describes the challenges of bilingualism by examining French-language novels written in English-speaking provinces. Two chapters build on environmental humanities to analyze the human-nonhuman enmeshments as their take place within the cultural Canadian context, with its postcolonial relationship to the landscape.

The book is available in Open Access at Stockholm University Press