Notas sobre o Outro Lado das Fronteiras Míticas do Western

Abstract

We will try to make a brief overview of the design of the American West (Yankee) as a designation of a geophysical reality but with strong cultural and ideological penetrations in the semantic amplitude of the term, being given that, ultimately, the word circumscribes a space of confrontation, belligerence and opposition between the savage universe, the  wilderness and civility as civilisation, in order to fundamentally address the process of the legal and juridical organization of citizenship, represented in westerns that take as central theme the establishment of law and order in its complex dialectic with the dimension of justice. In the latter opposition, not only the confrontation between European settlers/pilgrims and Indians is resized, but also that of agrarian modes of production, with structuring of slave or almost feudal socio-economic relations, with those defended by a bourgeois, capitalist and liberal mentality and also the outstanding function and the protagonism of law representatives, sheriffs and marshals.