Born in Buenos Aires in 1942, exiled to New York with his parents in 1945, shipped off to Chile in 1955 (where he attended an English school), a graduate of Berkeley, and member of Allende's socialist government who now teaches at Duke University, Dorfman has an astonishing family history and impeccable credentials as a leftist intellectual. This is the man who wrote "How to Read Donald Duck," Imperialist Ideology in the Disney Comic." In this exhilarating memoir, Dorman interweaves the wild story of his life before 1973 with an account of the coup that put the military dictator Pinochet into power. It's the powerful need to write that holds Dorfman together through all the dislocations, changes of language and identity.  (CHI22, $16.00)