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THE HEROINE WITH 1001 FACES - MARIA TATAR TASCH...

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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