Maggie Nelson's 'The Argonauts' is an extraordinary memoir exploring a complicated relationship, trans fluidity, sexuality, identity, gender, and motherhood. Nelson seamlessly blends personal history, social criticism, and critical theory in a captivating reflection on sexuality, love, art, and motherhood. The book delves into the intimate details of Nelson's relationship with Harry Dodge, a transgender partner, while also waxing eloquently on writing, books, authors, and notable quotes. The narrative jumps around to discuss pregnancy, gender fluidity, child rearing, stalking, and other topics, offering a provoking look at identity, family, love, and emotion.
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Content warnings for The Argonauts include topics related to sexual content, discussions of gender transition, and explorations of grief and loss.
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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. 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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About the Author:
Maggie Nelson is a poet, critic, and award-winning author of 'The Argonauts', 'Bluets', 'The Art of Cruelty', 'Jane: A Murder' and 'The Red Parts'. She lives in Los Angeles, California.
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