The Empire′s Old Clothes
What the Lone Ranger, Babar, and Other Innocent Heroes Do to Our Minds
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Back to TopAriel Dorfman holds the Walter Hines Page Research Chair of Literature and Latin American Studies at Duke University. A world-renowned author, he has written numerous works of fiction, plays, poems, and essays in both Spanish and English, including Death and the Maiden, as well as the acclaimed memoir Heading South, Looking North: A Bilingual Journey, and (with Armand Mattelart) How to Read Donald Duck: Imperialist Ideology in the Disney Comic.
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Back to TopPreface to the First Edition xxi
1. Childhood as Underdevelopment 1
2. Of Elephants and Ducks 12
3. The Lone Ranger's Last Ride 58
4. The Infantilization of the Adult Reader 117
5. The Innocents March into History . . . and Overthrow a Government 154
6. Conclusion 173
Notes 185
Acknowledgments 197
Index 199
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