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The Argonauts

The Argonauts

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by Maggie Nelson
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An intrepid voyage out to the frontiers of the latest thinking about love, language, and family. Maggie Nelson's The Argonauts is a genre-bending memoir, a work of "autotheory" offering fresh, fierce, and timely thinking about desire, identity, and the limitations and possibilities of love and language. At its center is a romance: the story of the author's relationship with the artist Harry Dodge. This story, which includes the author's account of falling in love with Dodge, who is fluidly gendered, as well as her journey to and through a pregnancy, is an intimate portrayal of the complexities and joys of (queer) family making. Writing in the spirit of public intellectuals such as Susan Sontag and Roland Barthes, Nelson binds her personal experience to a rigorous exploration of what iconic theorists have said about sexuality, gender, and the vexed institutions of marriage and child-rearing. Nelson's insistence on radical individual freedom and the value of caretaking becomes the rallying cry for this thoughtful, unabashed, uncompromising book.

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ISBN13: 9781555977351
ISBN10: 1555977359
Language: English
Publisher: Graywolf Press
Publication Year: 2016
Format: Paperback

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    Explores love, identity, and family through personal and theoretical lenses.

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    If you're interested in a thought-provoking blend of memoir and theory, The Argonauts offers a deeply personal yet intellectually rigorous journey into questions of love, gender, and family. Maggie Nelson’s honest storytelling paired with her engagement with profound ideas makes it a compelling read for anyone exploring the fluidity of identity or the complexities of modern relationships. This book is a celebration of radical self-expression and the transformative power of love.
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