Formation of isolated public formations on the border in women’s fantasy

The Frontier is one of the most important romantic categories widely used in the fantasy genre. The article examines three fantasy fiction trilogies, where isolated settlements on the borderlands are an important factor in the development of the plot. Women’s fantasy is a traditionally rather soft genre where the main development of the conflict occurs on the emotional level; in the books featured in the article the basis of the conflict is the interpenetration of worldviews alien to each other. The logic of centre-periphery relations in fantasy worlds and the basic emotional connotations in relation to isolated communities are explored. In the books of the American, Australian and Belarusian writers there are similar techniques for depicting isolated settlements, which indicates the presence of universality. The myth of the Frontier as interpreted by American and Russian researchers is proposed as a mythological basis.