The Argonauts
The Argonauts by Maggie Nelson, published by Melville House UK on April 7, 2016, is a genre-bending memoir that explores themes of love, language, and family. This edition spans 184 pages and is presented in English. The narrative centers on Nelson’s relationship with artist Harry Dodge, who embodies fluid gender identity, and delves into her experiences of love and pregnancy, offering insights into the complexities of queer family-making.
Readers will find a blend of personal memoir and theoretical exploration as Nelson intertwines her life experiences with the thoughts of influential intellectuals on sexuality and gender. The work addresses the limitations and possibilities of love and language while advocating for radical individual freedom and the importance of caretaking. Through this thoughtful examination, Nelson presents a nuanced perspective on parenting and relationships, making it a significant contribution to discussions surrounding LGBTQ themes and personal identity.
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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. 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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