Description
In this powerful cultural critique Ariel Dorfman explores the political and social implications of the smiling faces that inhabit familiar books comics and magazines. He reveals the ideological messages conveyed in works of popular culture such as the Donald Duck comics the Babar children s books and Reader s Digest magazine. The Empire s Old Clothes was widely praised when it was first published in 1983. This edition including a new preface by the author makes a contemporary classic newly available.


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