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THE HEROINE WITH 1001 FACES - MARIA TATAR GEBUNDEN

How do we explain our newfound cultural investment in empathy and social justice? For decades 
Joseph Campbell had defined our cultural aspirations in The Hero with a Thousand Faces 
emphasising the value of seeking glory and earning immortality. His work became the playbook
for Hollywood  with its many male-centric quest narratives. Unsatisfied with Campbell's
once-canonical work  Maria Tatar explores how heroines  rarely wielding a sword and deprived of
a pen  have flown beneath the radar even as they have been bent on social missions. Using the
domestic arts and storytelling skills  they have displayed audacity  curiosity and care as they
struggled to survive and change the reigning culture. Animating figures from Ovid's Philomela 
her tongue severed yet still weaving a tale about sexual assault  to Stieg Larsson's Lisbeth
Salander  a high-tech wizard seeking justice for victims of a serial killer  The Heroine with 1
001 Faces creates a luminous arc that takes us from ancient times to the present.

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