Frontier
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31. Frontier :
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—the idea of a frontier, a boundary or a limiting zone to distinguish one space or people from another.
Colonial frontiers were created as imperial discourse sought to define and invent the entities it shaped from its conquests.
The boundary that limited the space so defined was a crucial feature in imaging the imperial self, and in creating and defining (othering) those others by which that "Self" could achieve definition and value.
