A review by kingkorok
The Heroine with 1001 Faces by Maria Tatar

informative reflective

3.25

 Really interesting content, but I struggled to finish this. The author talks about so many books that I'm unfamiliar with, which made it difficult for me to follow the point she was making. I also couldn't figure out the flow of the book & sometimes connections were made between really disparate things in a way that was less persuasive to me. European, African, and Pacific Islander tales were analyzed in tandem as though universalist themes & conceptions of gender exist across culture, which I think other scholars would challenge. Also no discussion of the hero model as it relates to empire, which felt relevant in some moments of the story. Some parts were fascinating, though!