Reviews for Other People's Myths: The Cave of Echoes

The average rating for Other People's Myths: The Cave of Echoes based on 2 reviews is 3.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2009-10-20 00:00:00 Kellye Ortega Generally, I found this book fairly sloppy in the ways Doniger attempts to develop some sort of theory about myth without staking a claim or stepping on toes . . . though there are truly some gems. I particularly like how she applies archetypal knowledge to myths, using a more pluralized methodology. Doniger's call to her general audience to reinvigorate our own myths with the myths of others is admirable, but potentially problematic without a more critical examination. Appropriating other people's myths can be a colonial enterprise.

Review # 2 was written on 2019-03-17 00:00:00 Kwon Woong I didn't realize this was an academic book when I purchased this, but I am grateful that it is. This book anticipates work like Lewis Hyde's Trickster Makes This World, wherein myth serves a gateway into a deeper understanding into the way specific human cultures function. What I feel readers of this work can easily miss though is that there is a vein of postcolonial thought that implicitly works its way into O'Flaherty's volume. It's possible that postcolonial scholars interested in mythology may find this work more useful to them than layreaders interested in this subject matter.