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Supergirl is Kara (Helen Slater), Superman's younger cousin and a fellow émigré from Krypton, who grows up in Midvale, U.S.A., as Linda Lee. In her preppie uniform she is an ordinary schoolgirl, but put her in red cape and tights and she is revealed as California Girl, apotheosis of the workout ethic. Kara must save the world from the malefic Selena (Faye Dunaway), high priestess of Endor and part-time palmist. In this task, Supergirl is aided by her Krypton father Zaltar (Peter OToole), who, as in every other Freudian fable from Oedipus Rex to Star...
Skvorecky's alter ego is Danny Smiricky, 48, a Czech émigré professor at a college very like Skvorecky's academic home for some 15 years, the University of Toronto. Danny teaches dark Old World lessons from Poe, Hawthorne and Stephen Crane to nice Canadian boys and girls whose idea of horror is derived from Stephen King movies. As for The Red Badge of Courage, Danny's students read it not as a commentary on war but as one more case study of a young man's identity crisis...
...kind of student naiveté that would equate a speeding ticket with police brutality causes Danny to abandon his stance of amused tolerance. He retreats to a second demi-world, the "motley, traitorous émigré community." Alas, there the exiles have adopted native customs with a vengeance. The women wear gold boots with green hearts and T shirts with breasts printed on them. The men buy calfskin jackets if they can afford them, checkered suits if they cannot. During their frequent alcoholic binges, they plot absurd schemes for a National Liberation Army of the Czechoslovak People that will overthrow...
...congregation to stay, arguing that "anyone who cannot be a Christian here will not be able to be one somewhere else." Many members of the East German artistic community fear that leaving would only be a step back for them and prefer to stay on as "internal émigr...
...commanding figures of Russian exile literature, Andrei Sinyavsky, 58, and Alexander Solzhenitsyn, 65, have chosen to remain relatively isolated in the West. Following a six-year sentence in the Gulag for publishing his work abroad, Sinyavsky moved to France in 1973 and quickly became a leader in émigré literary and political life. A Paris resident for more than a decade, Sinyavsky has not felt the need to learn French. Though he has written two remarkable phantasmagorical novels and innumerable articles while in exile, hardly any of Sinyavsky's writings have appeared in English since A Voice from...