Dictatorship: The Imposition of U.S. Culture on Latin America Through Translation. Peter A. Neissa.

Dictatorship: The Imposition of U.S. Culture on Latin America Through Translation. Peter A. Neissa. ISBN: 978-1-888205-10-7. $24.95.

This book focuses on how a dictator or a culturally dominant power can use language to impose cultural values. As an instrument of power, language is used by a dictator to educate, induce, or manipulate a nation's citizens into acting in accordance with the ruling power's cultural values and beliefs.