Nelson's insistence on radical individual freedom and the value of caretaking becomes the rallying cry of this thoughtful, unabashed, uncompromising book. Maggie Nelson’s ‘The Argonauts’ By Jennifer Szalai Maggie Nelson Harry Dodge Buy Book When you purchase an independently reviewed book through our site, we earn an affiliate.

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. This story, which includes Nelson's account of falling in love with Dodge, who is fluidly gendered, as well as her journey to and through a pregnancy, offers a firsthand account of the complexities and joys of (queer) family-making. At its center is a romance: the story of the author's relationship with the artist Harry Dodge. 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. Winner of the 2016 National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism.Īn intrepid voyage out to the frontiers of the latest thinking about love, language, and family. The Argonauts, Maggie Nelson I ended 2019 and began 2020 with this, a book appropriately about endings and beginnings, death and birth. The Argonauts Maggie Nelson € 15.99 If not in stock, the expected delivery time to our store for this item will be 7-10 working days. The Argonauts, Maggie Nelson I ended 2019 and began 2020 with this, a book appropriately abou.' Liz on Instagram: '1.

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