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Argonauts, The

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Argonauts, The

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SKU: 9781925355604 Category: Product ID: 9997

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Title: Argonauts, The
Author: NELSON MAGGIE
Format: PAPERBACK
Publication date: 13/04/2016
Imprint: TEXT PUBLISHERS
Price: $20.00
Publishing status: Active

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 centre is a romance: the story of the author’s relationship with the artist Harry Dodge. This story, which includes the author’s account of falling in love with Dodge, who is fluidly gendered, as well as her journey to and through a pregnancy, is an intimate portrayal 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 for this thoughtful, unabashed, uncompromising book.

ISBN: 9781925355604
Dimension: 198mm X 128mm
Pages: 192
Edition: 01

Additional information

Dimensions 198 × 128 mm