The Empire's Old Clothes
by Ariel Dorfman
Ariel Dorfman is one of the leading literary figures in Latin America today. This book is a collection of early essays from the 1970s. They constitute one of the founding works in the study of cultural imperialism and hegemony. Through the prism of popular children’s literature, Dorfman shows how the assumptions of U.S. superiority, hegemony and benevolence are reproduced from one generation to the next.
