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The Heroine with 1001 Faces (Paperback)
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The Heroine with 1001 Faces (Paperback)
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Loot Price R451
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The Heroine with 1,001 Faces dismantles the cult of warrior heroes,
revealing a secret history of heroinism at the very heart of our
collective cultural imagination. Maria Tatar, a leading authority
on fairy tales and folklore, explores how heroines, rarely wielding
a sword and often deprived of a pen, have flown beneath the radar
even as they have been bent on redemptive missions. Deploying
domestic crafts and using words as weapons, they have found ways to
survive assaults and rescue others from harm, all while repairing
the fraying edges in the fabric of their social worlds. Like the
tongueless Philomela, who spins the tale of her rape into a
tapestry, or Arachne, who portrays the misdeeds of the gods, they
have discovered instruments for securing fairness in the
storytelling circles where so-called women's work-spinning, mending
and weaving-is carried out. In a broad-ranging volume that moves
with ease from the local to the global, Tatar demonstrates how our
new heroines wear their curiosity as a badge of honour rather than
a mark of shame and how their "mischief making" evidences
compassion and concern. The Heroine with 1,001 Faces creates a
luminous arc that takes us from ancient times to the present day.
It casts an unusually wide net, expanding the canon and thinking
capaciously in global terms, breaking down the boundaries of genre
and displaying a sovereign command of cultural context. This, then,
is a historic volume that informs our present and its newfound
investment in empathy and social justice like no other work of
recent cultural history.
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