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Graywolf Press
May 2015
On Sale: May 5, 2015
160 pages
ISBN: 1555977073
EAN: 9781555977078
Kindle: B00P5EDBHU
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Non-Fiction Memoir
An intrepid voyage out to the frontiers of the latest
thinking about love, language, and familyMaggie 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 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.
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
of this thoughtful, unabashed, uncompromising book.
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