W.W. Norton describe s the work as follows:
\n"The Heroine with 1\,001 Faces \;disman tles 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 h eroines\, rarely wielding a sword and often deprived of a pen\, have flown beneath the radar even as they have been bent on redemptive missions. Dep loying the domestic crafts and using words as weapons\, they have found wa ys to survive assaults and rescue others from harm\, all while repairing t he 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&rs quo\;s work&mdash\;spinning\, mending\, and weaving&mdash\;is carried out.
\nTatar challenges the canonical models of heroism in Joseph Campbe ll&rsquo\;s \;The Hero with a Thousand Faces\, with their male-centric emphasis on achieving glory and immortality. Finding the women missing fr om his account and defining their own heroic trajectories is no easy task\ , for Campbell created the playbook for Hollywood directors. Audiences aro und the world have willingly surrendered to the lure of quest narratives a nd charismatic heroes. Whether in the form of Frodo\, Luke Skywalker\, or Harry Potter\, Campbell&rsquo\;s archetypical hero has dominated more than the box office. \;
\nIn a broad-ranging volume that moves with ease from the local to the global\, Tatar demonstrates how our new heroine s wear their curiosity as a badge of honor rather than a mark of shame\, a nd how their &ldquo\;mischief-making&rdquo\; evidences compassion and conc ern. From Bluebeard&rsquo\;s wife to Nancy Drew\, and from Jane Eyre to Ja nie Crawford\, women have long crafted stories to broadcast offenses in th e pursuit of social justice. Girls\, too\, have now precociously stepped u p to the plate\, with Hermione Granger\, Katniss Everdeen\, and Starr Cart er as trickster figures enacting their own forms of extrajudicial justice. Their quests may not take the traditional form of a &ldquo\;hero&rsquo\;s journey\,&rdquo\; but they reveal the value of courage\, defiance\, and\, above all\, care.
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