The Argonauts
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Word Count
35,750 words, Guess
Page Count
143 pages
Identifiers
- Internet Archiveargonauts0000nels
- ISBN-139781555977078
- ISBN-101555977073
- Library of Congress Control Number2014960046
- OCLC Control Number889165103
and 2 more
- Better World Books9781555977078
- Open LibraryOL27179688M
Classifications
- DDC306.8508664
- LCCCT
- LCCPS3564.E4687 A75 2015
and 2 more
- LCCPS3564.E4687A75 2015
- LCCPS3564.E4687 Z46 2015
Description
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 artist Harry Dodge. This story, which includes the author’s account of falling in love with Dodge, 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 like 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 childrearing. 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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