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.
- ISBN10 6613036226
- ISBN13 9786613036223
- Publish Date 1 January 2009 (first published 12 April 1983)
- Publish Status Active
- Out of Print 11 July 2012
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Duke University Press
- Format eBook
- Pages 196
- Language English