The Empire's Old Clothes: What the Lone Ranger, Babar, and Other Innocent Heroes Do to Our Minds PDF
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Praise for The Empire’s Old Clothes ‘‘For its originality and thoroughness, [it] should guarantee Dorfman a prominent place in the literature on the relationship between popu- lar culture and politics.’’—The Baltimore Sun ‘‘Dorfman’s arguments are witty, cogent and above all, persuasive. . . . Anyone who has ever looked at a movie or a comic book or a magazine (or plans to do so in the future) should read it.’’ —Newsday ‘‘Dorfman speaks with a child’s freshness when he warns that our subliterature is by no means the apolitical entertainment it purports to be.’’—The Washington Post Book World ‘‘Stunning, provocative perceptions flow from this articulate Chilean. . . . These fierce essays provide thought-provoking, intense reading.’’ —Booklist ‘‘A remarkable writer . . . writing out of a very different cultural per- spective from comfortable American readers.’’—Los Angeles Herald Examiner ‘‘The Empire’s Old Clothes is an intriguing, well-written essay on how the beliefs of a culture pervade the products of that culture.’’ —Psychology Today The Empire’s Old Clothes The Empire’s Old Clothes What the Lone Ranger, Babar, and Other Innocent Heroes Do to Our Minds Ariel Dorfman Duke University Press Durham and London 2010 ∫ 2010 Ariel Dorfman All rights reserved Printed in the United States of America on acid-free paper $ Designed by C. H. Westmoreland Typeset in Chaparral with some Glypha display by Keystone Typesetting, Inc. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data appear on the last printed page of this book. ‘‘Of Elephants and Ducks,’’ ‘‘The Lone Ranger’s Last Ride,’’ and ‘‘The Infantilization of the Adult Reader’’ were translated by Clark Hansen. For Rodrigo and Joaquín Contents Preface to the New Edition xi Preface to the First Edition xxi One Childhood as Underdevelopment 1 Two Of Elephants and Ducks 12 Three The Lone Ranger’s Last Ride 58 Four The Infantilization of the Adult Reader 117 Five The Innocents March into History . . . and Overthrow a Government 154 Six Conclusion 173 Notes 185 Acknowledgments 197
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