The empire's old clothes
Subtitle: what the Lone Ranger, Babar, and other innocent heroes do to our minds
By: Ariel Dorfman.
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Durham, NC
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780822346593; 9780822346715
Subjects: Popular literature -- History and criticism -- Theory, etc; Books and reading -- Psychological aspects; Heroes in literature
Notes: First published in 1983 by Pantheon, and then by Penguin in 1996. This edition contains a new preface by the author.

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Childhood as underdevelopment; title: Of elephants and ducks; title: The Lone Ranger's last ride; title: The infantilization of the adult reader; title: The innocents march into history...and overthrow a government.