As an oral form of cultural expression, myth occupies a contested and contestable site in cultural studies. Dominant and totalizing epistemes whose derivation is from the Western philosophical and scribal tradition have sought to locate myth and the mythic in the archives of prehistoric memory. The usual, received argument has been that myth issues from, and goes into, an oral, pre-scientific culture. In this regard, conscious, ideological efforts have always been made, especially by some in the Western academy, to constitute myth as a fixed, monumentalised cultural event without apportioning to it any agency in contemporaneity. In this paper, I engage myth as a dynamic, living tissue which participates in the contingencies and currents of modernity.
