Leela's Book: A Novel

Leela's Book: A Novel
Author: Alice Albinia
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Total Pages: 448
Release: 2012-01-09
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0393083497

"Steeped in the tradition of the Indian epic, yet modern and vastly entertaining." —The Times (London) In her fiction debut, Alice Albinia weaves a multithreaded epic tale that encompasses divine saga and familial discord and introduces an unforgettable heroine. Leela—alluring, taciturn, haunted—is moving from New York back to Delhi. Worldly and accomplished, she has been in self-imposed exile from India and her family for decades; twenty-two years earlier, her sister was seduced by the egotistical Vyasa, and the fallout from their relationship drove Leela away. Now an eminent Sanskrit scholar, Vyasa is preparing for his son’s marriage. But when Leela arrives for the wedding, she disrupts the careful choreography of the weekend, with its myriad attendees and their conflicting desires. Gleefully presiding over the drama is Ganesh—divine, elephant-headed scribe of the Mahabharata, India’s great epic. The family may think they have arranged the wedding for their own selfish ends, but according to Ganesh it is he who is directing events—in a bid to save Leela, his beloved heroine, from Vyasa. As the weekend progresses, secret online personas, maternal identities, and poetic authorships are all revealed; boundaries both religious and continental are crossed; and families are ripped apart and brought back together in this vibrant and brilliant celebration of family, love, and storytelling.

Weird Leela

Weird Leela
Author: Jyotsna Sreenivasan
Publisher:
Total Pages: 48
Release: 2000-10-01
Genre: East Indians
ISBN: 9780322044937

Leela can't wait for Ajji, her grandmother, to come visit from India. But when she arrives, everything changes. Nicholas makes fun of the red dot Ajji wears on her forehead. Crystal says Leela and her grandmother are weird. Soon, Leela wishes her grandmother had never come. Before, she was Leela, a normal girl who happened to have brown skin. Now, she's weird Leela, a strange girl from a faraway foreign land. Can Leela find a way to stop the teasing and stay true to herself?

LEELA

LEELA
Author: Jerry Pinto
Publisher: Penguin UK
Total Pages: 245
Release: 2010-05-06
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 8184752547

Leela Naidu was listed as one of the five most beautiful women in the world by Vogue magazine. But she was much more than that. She was the fine-boned; haunting face in Hrishikesh Mukherjee’s Anuradha; in Merchant-Ivory’s The Householder and in Shyam Benegal’s Trikaal. She was the woman who refused to sign Raj Kapoor’s films four times; and the actor who asked for a script long before the phrase ‘bound script’ became Bollywood cliché. Jean Renoir taught her acting and Salvador Dali used her as a model for a Madonna. Leela was married; the mother of twins and divorced before she was twenty. Later; she was Dom Moraes’s muse; his unpaid secretary; his best friend and; when he was interviewing Indira Gandhi; his translator (interpreting ‘his mumbling questions’). Through this time she also edited magazines and dubbed Hong Kong action movies; was Kumar Shahani’s first producer; and when JRD Tata wanted a film on how to use the washroom on a plane; she made it for him. A Patchwork Life is a memoir that is charming; idiosyncratic and a window to a world of Chopin; red elephants; lampshades made of human skin; moss gardens and much more: a world where a naked Russian count turns up in a French garden; plush hotels offer porcupine quills as toothpicks and an assistant director sends his female lead an inflatable rubber bra. Leela’s life was about ‘staying in the moment’. Everyone who met her has a Leela Naidu story. This is her version.

Victory Parade

Victory Parade
Author: Leela Corman
Publisher: Schocken
Total Pages: 180
Release: 2024-04-02
Genre: Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN: 0805243453

The author of the Eisner-nominated graphic novel Unterzakhn now gives us a heart-wrenching, phantasmagorical tale of love, loss, and trauma both personal and global, set during World War II in Brooklyn, New York, and in the newly liberated Buchenwald concentration camp. One of a group of women working as welders in the Brooklyn Navy Yard, Rose Arensberg has fallen in love with a disabled veteran while awaiting the return of her husband, Sam, a soldier in the American army serving in Europe. As we follow the bittersweet, heartbreaking stories of Rose and her fellow Rosie-the-Riveters, we're immersed in the day-to-day challenges of life on the home front as seen through the eyes of these resilient women, as well as through the eyes of Eleanor, Rose’s impressionable young daughter, and Ruth, the German Jewish refugee Rose has taken into their home. Ruth’s desperate attempt to exorcise the nightmare of growing up in pre-war Nazi Germany takes her into the world of professional women wrestlers—with devastating consequences. And Sam’s encounters with the horrors of a liberated concentration camp follow him home to Brooklyn in the form of terrifying flashbacks that will leave him scarred forever. Victory Parade paints a deeply affecting portrait of how individuals and civilizations process mass trauma. Magnificently drawn by Leela Corman, it’s an Expressionist journey through the battlefields of the human heart and the mass graves of genocide.

The Object of Jewish Literature

The Object of Jewish Literature
Author: Barbara E. Mann
Publisher: Yale University Press
Total Pages: 278
Release: 2022-07-26
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0300265387

A history of modern Jewish literature that explores our enduring attachment to the book as an object With the rise of digital media, the "death of the book” has been widely discussed. But the physical object of the book persists. Here, through the lens of materiality and objects, Barbara E. Mann tells a history of modern Jewish literature, from novels and poetry to graphic novels and artists’ books. Bringing contemporary work on secularism and design in conversation with literary history, she offers a new and distinctive frame for understanding how literary genres emerge. The long twentieth century, a period of tremendous physical upheaval and geographic movement, witnessed the production of a multilingual canon of writing by Jewish authors. Literature’s objecthood is felt not only in the physical qualities of books—bindings, covers, typography, illustrations—but also through the ways in which materiality itself became a practical foundation for literary expression.

Global Trends in Teaching English Language and Literature.

Global Trends in Teaching English Language and Literature.
Author: Dr. J. M. Shobha
Publisher: Alborear (OPC) Pvt. Ltd.
Total Pages: 132
Release: 2023-12-08
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 8194666066

With great pleasure and enthusiasm, I welcome you to this edition of the research articles on Global Trends in Teaching and Learning English Language and Literature. As we all understand, change is an unchanging reality, embracing change and staying updated with the latest trends in teaching and learning is crucial for continuous improvement and enhancement in the field of education. In these pages, you will find a collection of insightful articles and research findings from esteemed authors and experts in their respective fields. I hope that the content presented here enriches your knowledge and sparks new ideas. May the discussions and collaborations over the topic inspire us to elevate the standards of teaching and learning ensuring a brighter future for English language education. I extend my heartfelt gratitude to the authors for their valuable contributions. Together, we have crafted a volume that adds significant depth to our understanding of the evolving trends in language education.

Representing Multiculturalism in Comics and Graphic Novels

Representing Multiculturalism in Comics and Graphic Novels
Author: Carolene Ayaka
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 320
Release: 2014-11-20
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1317687159

Multiculturalism, and its representation, has long presented challenges for the medium of comics. This book presents a wide ranging survey of the ways in which comics have dealt with the diversity of creators and characters and the (lack of) visibility for characters who don’t conform to particular cultural stereotypes. Contributors engage with ethnicity and other cultural forms from Israel, Romania, North America, South Africa, Germany, Spain, U.S. Latino and Canada and consider the ways in which comics are able to represent multiculturalism through a focus on the formal elements of the medium. Discussion themes include education, countercultures, monstrosity, the quotidian, the notion of the ‘other," anthropomorphism, and colonialism. Taking a truly international perspective, the book brings into dialogue a broad range of comics traditions.

Intersectional Feminist Readings of Comics

Intersectional Feminist Readings of Comics
Author: Sandra Cox
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 132
Release: 2021-09-20
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1000437108

Intersectional Feminist Readings of Comics collects several theoretically informed close reading of comics and graphic literature that apply an intersectional feminist lens to the interpretation of several contemporary North American graphic narratives. The essays examine use a range of interpretive lenses drawn from theoretical models used in contemporary aesthetics, media studies, and literary criticism to analyze mainstream figures like DC’s Catwoman and Marvel’s Miss America and Doctor Strange, to contextualize historical and speculative comics by Indigenous American illustrators, and to explicate autography by critically lauded Jewish, queer and female cartoonists. In the first half of the book, the chapters examine ways in which superhero comics and the cinematic and televisual adaptations thereof, reify, revise and reject gender parity, systemic misogyny and heteropatriarchy through visual and textual rhetorics of representation. In the second part of the volume, the chapters look at the ways that feminist interpretive practices illuminate the radical work undertaken by cartoonists from historically marginalized communities in the U.S. and Canada. Across both halves, readers will find applications of longstanding feminist critical traditions, like ecofeminism, as well as new intersectional extrapolations of narratology, autobiographical studies, and visual rhetoric, which have been applied to the selected comics in insightful and innovative ways. This is a lively and varied collection suitable for students and scholars in gender studies, cultural studies, media studies and literary studies.