The Argonauts
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Maggie Nelson
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. It binds an account of Nelson's relationship with her partner and a journey to and through a pregnancy to a rigorous exploration of sexuality, gender, and "family." An insistence on radical individual freedom and the value of caretaking becomes the rallying cry for this thoughtful, unabashed, uncompromising book.
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Author
Maggie Nelson
Pages
160
Publisher
Graywolf Press
Published Date
2015-05-05
ISBN
155597340X 9781555973407
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"I finished this book and it took a while to get through it. It’s an important book about queerness and being a cis partner of a trans person. I like the perspective because I feel like we only get the trans person’s side. But Maggie’s words are so powerful. And her discussion of literary works in relation to her partnership with Harry dodge as well as her pregnancy and childbirth of her son iggy is so incredible!!!"
Finn Hughes
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