This open access collection offers a detailed mapping of recent Nordic literature and its
different genres (fiction poetry and children's literature) through the perspective of
spatiality. Concentrating on contemporary Nordic literature the book presents a distinctive
view on the spatial turn and widens the understanding of Nordic literature outside of canonized
authors. Examining literatures by Danish Norwegian Swedish and Finnish authors the chapters
investigate a recurrent theme of social criticism and analyze this criticism against the
welfare state and power hierarchies in spatial terms. The chapters explore various narrative
worlds and spaces-from the urban to parks and forests from textual spaces to spatial thematics
studying these spatial features in relation to the problems of late modernity.
