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The West presents itself in American culture as an idealized space with unique characteristics, allowing it to become a place where various myths flourish and shape the United States of America until today. The journeys to the West undertaken by the first settlers and their accounts contributed to create certain expectations in Eastern people regarding Western landscape, native population or the new opportunities that the place could provide, while simultaneously constructing the idea of the frontier, a space in which the individual is also idealized and where different figures emerge, each with their own peculiar features that shape the concept of hero for the Americans. The Call of the Wild (1903) by Jack London approaches all these concerns, which is why this article intends to observe how the book portrays not only wilderness but also how the figure of the hero, together with conceptions of masculinity that are ingrained in Americans’ collective memory, is frequently connected to anxieties about the inability to live up to it. Similarly, the essay will also try to understand which idealizations are in fact subverted or not, especially through Buck, and what they may symbolize in the novel and in America’s cultural panorama. Abstrato O Oeste apresenta-se na cultura norte-americana como um espaco idealizado com caracter-isticas peculiares, permitindo que se tornasse um local propicio a construcao de diversos mitos que ate aos dias de hoje marcam os Estados Unidos da America. As viagens dos primeiros colonizadores em direccao ao Oeste norte-americano e os seus diversos relatos permitiram que a populacao de Este criasse determinadas expectativas sobre aspectos como a paisagem, a populacao nativa ou as novas oportunidades que o territorio poderia oferecer, tendo simultaneamente sido construida a ideia de fronteira, espaco onde o individuo e igualmente idealizado e onde surgem diferentes figuras com caracteristicas proprias que correspondem a uma concepcao de heroi americano. The Call of the Wild (1903) de Jack London apresenta todas estas tematicas, pelo que o presente artigo pretende nao so observar de que forma a obra retrata o mundo selvagem mas tambem como a figura do heroi, aliada a concepcoes de masculinidade que percorrem o ideario americano, esta frequentemente envolta em ansiedades relacionadas com a incapacidade de atingir o mesmo. Da mesma forma, tentaremos tambem perceber que idealizacoes sao de facto subvertidas ou nao, principalmente atraves de Buck, e o que poderao as mesmas simbolizar tanto no contexto da historia como no panorama cultural americano em geral. Palavras-chave: Espaco; humanos; fronteira; heroi; Oeste

Espaços idealizados, humanos idealizados: representações do espaço e do herói em The Call of the Wild de Jack London