Week 6: Myth

Although I think there's all kind of reactive, incendiary things to say about the works in this week's readings, I'm interested in looking at a somewhat more docile subject: the use of myth.

Last week, we saw a very direct use of myth in Hungry Woman, and this week, myth appears again, although used in a different way, in Stuff. I'm curious

1. How myth can be utilized in different ways to offer different perspectives on a culture
2. How myth tends to be utilized in art/literature/etc today, and for what purposes it is useful (I feel like myth is often used to exoticize or folklorize contemporary cultures)
3. What affect the use of myth had on us as readers of Hungry Woman and Stuff, and if we feel like this affect was the intention of the author