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The Argonauts: A Memoir by Nelson, Maggie is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is The Argonauts: A Memoir about?
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 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. "The Argonauts is about small, miraculous domestic dramas, and the ardent acts of readjustment and care that they require, but it is also a reconsideration of what the institutions established around sexuality and reproduction mean if you come at them at a slant... if you disrupt them by the very fact of your being..." - Olivia Lang, The Guardian UKWriting in the spirit of public intellectuals such as Susan Sontag and Roland Barthes, Maggie 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 a
Who reads The Argonauts: A Memoir?
It is typically read by readers looking for immersive, entertainment-first reading.
Common subject areas: fiction, literature, genre fiction.
- Author
- Nelson, Maggie
- Publisher
- Graywolf Press
- Published
- 2015
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781555977078
- Category
- work of fiction
- Subjects
- Sociology, History, Biography
- Rating
- 4 / 5 (12,912 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14