Latin America
Related: About this forumI just preordered a copy of "How to Read Donald Duck"
How to Read Donald Duck (Para leer al Pato Donald in Spanish) is a 1971 book-length essay by Ariel Dorfman and Armand Mattelart that critiques Disney comics from a Marxist point of view as being vehicles for American cultural imperialism. It was first published in Chile in 1971, became a bestseller throughout Latin America and is still considered a seminal work in cultural studies. It is to be reissued in August 2018 to a general audience in the United States, with a new introduction by Dorfman, by OR Books.
How to Read Donald Duck was written and published during the brief flowering of revolutionary socialism under the government of Salvador Allende and his Popular Unity coalition and is closely identified with the revolutionary politics of its era. In 1973, a coup d'état, secretly supported by the United States, brought in power the military dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet. During Pinochet's regime, How to Read Donald Duck was banned and subject to book burning; its authors were forced into exile.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/How_to_Read_Donald_Duck
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(7,323 posts)Judi Lynn
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(11,797 posts)Monstrously jargon filled. I had to read it for exams.
Xipe Totec
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(11,797 posts)Not the original essay.