Elusiveness and Ambiguity in the Concept of the American Frontier
Elusiveness and Ambiguity in the Concept of the American Frontier

Summary/Abstract: The study approaches one of the key concepts of American culture, identified as the major cultural paradigm of the American space both inside the American culture and in its specific ways if rapport to the global world: the American frontier. The spatial paradigm of the frontier, ineluctably related to the concept of the West, is characterized by ambiguity due to the lack of exact referentiality. The approach starts from the original Turnerian version of the American western frontier and leads to an assimilation of the frontier with the foucaultian “heterotopia”.

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