Imaginary Men

Imaginary Men
Author: Anjali Banerjee
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 260
Release: 2009-11-24
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1439184542

This charming novel about a Bengali-American matchmaker in San Francisco who creates an imaginary fiancé in order to satisfy her marriage-minded traditional parents offers a fresh variation on the timeless theme of a young woman's quest for true love. It seemed like a good idea at the time. Lina Ray has a knack for pairing up perfect couples as a professional matchmaker in San Francisco, but her well-meaning, highly traditional Indian family wants her to get married. When her Auntie Kiki introduces Lina to the bachelor from hell at her sister's wedding in India, Lina panics and blurts out, "I'm engaged!" Because what's the harm in a little lie? Who's sari now? Lina scrambles to find a real fiancé because Auntie Kiki will be coming to America soon to approve the match. But date after disastrous date gets her no closer to her prince -- until an actual prince arrives on her doorstep. Lina hasn't been able to stop fantasizing about traditional but dashing Raja Prasad since she met him in India. In fact, her imaginary fiancé has begun to resemble him! Now Raja is in San Francisco and wants Lina to find a suitable bride for his brother. Though they live oceans apart, Lina longs to bridge the gap. But when her fantastic fib catches up with her, life is suddenly like a Bollywood flick gone horribly wrong. Lina may have an over-developed fantasy life, but she certainly never imagined things would turn out like this!

Imaginary Men Love Imaginary Women

Imaginary Men Love Imaginary Women
Author: Karlos Rene Ayala
Publisher: Lulu.com
Total Pages: 158
Release: 2014-11-17
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 131250269X

Imaginary Men Love Imaginary Women is the second book of poetry by the artist Karlos Rene Ayala; it is the second book in a three-part bildungsroman through poetry.

HE BANNA: Inside South Africa's First Imaginary Men's Conference

HE BANNA: Inside South Africa's First Imaginary Men's Conference
Author: Ace Moloi
Publisher: Pen Pal Communications
Total Pages: 191
Release: 2024-04-05
Genre: Art
ISBN: 0796161658

IMAGINE one day men stopped clowning about attending a theoretical men’s conference, and actually organised a real one? Most of us ask ourselves this question each year on Valentine’s Day when the imaginary conference tantrums start, but only one man had all the boredom in the world to think it out loud. And now we’re here. HE BANNA: Inside South Africa’s First Imaginary Men’s Conference is a commissioned report filed by Ace Moloi about the conference’s developments, deliberations and resolutions as he imagined they would be. Headlined by mental health, gender-based violence, rape culture, fatherhood and more, this book aspires to be a journalistic offering that gives a blow-by-blow commentary of what transpired at the conference. Here, shebeen arguments are treated with the same literary respect enjoyed by superior logic. Disclaimer: The book itself is imaginary. So, you might have to verify the contents first before you tap to pay.

Imaginary Friend

Imaginary Friend
Author: Stephen Chbosky
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
Total Pages: 768
Release: 2019-10-01
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1538731347

From a New York Times bestselling author, a young boy is haunted by a voice in his head in this "epic horror" novel, perfect for fans of Stephen King (Dan Chaon, author of Ill Will). Single mother Kate Reese is on the run. Determined to improve life for her and her seven year-old son, Christopher, she flees an abusive relationship in the middle of the night. At first, the tight-knit community of Mill Grove, Pennsylvania seems like the perfect place to finally settle down. Then Christopher vanishes. Days later, he emerges from the woods at the edge of town, unharmed but not unchanged. He returns with a voice in his head only he can hear, with a mission only he can complete: Build a treehouse in the woods by Christmas, or his mother and everyone in the town will never be the same again. Twenty years ago, Stephen Chbosky's The Perks of Being a Wallflower made readers everywhere feel infinite. Now, Chbosky has returned with an epic work of literary horror, years in the making, whose grand scale and rich emotion redefine the genre. Read it with the lights on. One of The Year's Best Books (People, EW, Lithub, Vox, Washington Post, and more)

Imaginary Men

Imaginary Men
Author: Enid Shomer
Publisher:
Total Pages: 176
Release: 1993
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

A wide variety of characters test society's limits.

Male Confessions

Male Confessions
Author: Björn Krondorfer
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Total Pages: 453
Release: 2009-12-03
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0804773432

Male Confessions examines how men open their intimate lives and thoughts to the public through confessional writing. This book examines writings—by St. Augustine, a Jewish ghetto policeman, an imprisoned Nazi perpetrator, and a gay American theologian—that reflect sincere attempts at introspective and retrospective self-investigation, often triggered by some wounding or rupture and followed by a transformative experience. Krondorfer takes seriously the vulnerability exposed in male self-disclosure while offering a critique of the religious and gendered rhetoric employed in such discourse. The religious imagination, he argues, allows men to talk about their intimate, flawed, and sinful selves without having to condemn themselves or to fear self-erasure. Herein lies the greatest promise of these confessions: by baring their souls to judgment, these writers may also transcend their self-imprisonment.

Male Bodies and Sexual Difference

Male Bodies and Sexual Difference
Author: Ovidiu Anemtoaicei
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Total Pages: 260
Release: 2018-04-18
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1527509753

This book addresses themes concerning male bodies, men and masculinities from an explicit feminist philosophical position, drawing from various fields, including phenomenology, gender theory, sociology of the body and continental philosophy, among others. Whereas the majority of works in the field of critical studies on men and masculinities draw predominantly on gender and queer theories, this book works from within the sexual difference theory as developed by feminist philosopher Luce Irigaray. As such, it proposes a conceptual sketch for a different understanding of the complex relationships between “male bodies”, “men” and “masculinities”, making use of Gilles Deleuze’s radical notion of “critique” and arguing, at the same time, for a post-Deleuzean concept of “becoming-man” from the philosophy of sexual difference perspective. The book represents a contribution to the interpretations of Luce Irigaray’s rich work, as well as to the fields of masculinities studies and feminist philosophy, and it is written primarily for scholars and students in cultural studies, women and gender studies, sexuality studies, and philosophy.

The Racial Imaginary

The Racial Imaginary
Author: Claudia Rankine
Publisher:
Total Pages: 285
Release: 2015
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9781934200797

Frank, fearless letters from poets of all colors, genders, classes about the material conditions under which their art is made.