Maggie nelson is one of the most electrifying writers at work in america today, among the sharpest and most supple thinkers of her generation. The book is a continuous stream of thoughts, reflections and writings by the author. An intrepid voyage out to the frontiers of the latest thinking about love, language, and family maggie nelson s. Dazzling language, queer theory and domestic bliss meet in a triumphant love story, now making a longdeserved uk debut for its brilliant. The argonauts is a voyage through parenting, partnership. Nelson is a poet, critic, and nonfiction author of books including the art of cruelty. A true story of money, power, friendship, and betrayal by nick bilton epub read online. Maggie nelson on intellectualism and having baggage books. The following version of this book was used for the creation of this study guide.
The argonauts begins with a declaration of love and progresses through love, marriage, and parenthood in the usual order of things. The argonauts vancouver island regional library overdrive. Nelson details falling in love with and marrying the transgender artist harry dodge who initially inflicts nelson with pronoun anxiety by refusing to be. Download the argonauts or read the argonauts online books in pdf, epub and mobi format. Its the story of two people falling in love and making a family. Maggie nelson s the argonauts is a genrebending memoir, a work of autotheory offering fresh, fierce, and timely thinking about desire, identity, and the limitations and possibilities of love and language. Apr 28, 2016 an intrepid voyage out to the frontiers of the latest thinking about love, language, and family maggie nelson s the argonauts is a genrebending memoir, a work of autotheory offering fresh, fierce, and timely thinking about desire, identity, and the limitations and possibilities of love and language. An intrepid voyage out to the frontiers of the latest thinking about love, language, and family.
Apr 23, 2015 the argonauts by maggie nelson graywolf press. At the centre of the argonauts is the love story between maggie nelson and the artist harry dodge, who is fluidly gendered. Greek mythology is a source of endless fascination. Read the argonauts pdf a memoir ebook by maggie nelson. May 05, 2015 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. A gorgeous book, inventive, fearless, and full of heart. Disclaimers contact wikipedia developers statistics cookie statement mobile view. A groundbreaking memoir that offers fresh and fierce reflections on motherhood, desire, gender, identity and feminism. The argonauts is about love and marriage, motherhood, pregnancy, birth and familymaking, and because it is a book by maggie nelson, it turns every one. The argonauts is a genrebending memoir, a work of autotheory offering fresh, fierce, and timely thinking about desire, identity, and the limitations and possibilities of love and language. Aug 04, 2015 maggie nelson s the argonauts is a genrebending memoir, a work of autotheory offering fresh, fierce, and timely thinking about desire, identity, and the limitations and possibilities of love and language. Text publishing the argonauts, book by maggie nelson.
I read the argonauts in one breathless, tearful, mindblown day and im still recovering. Finally, this book will explore the misuse of the greek myth of jason and the argonauts in robert temples theory that amphibious aliens from sirius invented human civilization. The argonauts harris county public library overdrive. She is generally described as a genrebusting writer defying classification, working in autobiography, art criticism, theory, scholarship, and poetry. Nelson has been the recipient of a 2016 macarthur fellowship, a 2012 creative capital literature fellowship, a 2011 nea fellowship in poetry, and a 2010 guggenheim fellowship in nonfiction. May 05, 2015 maggie nelson s the argonauts is a genrebending memoir, a work of autotheory offering fresh, fierce, and timely thinking about desire, identity, and the limitations and possibilities of love and language. Jun 09, 2015 the argonauts is gorgeous, enlightening, and feministasfact, and for those reasons, if i had to chose a book for everyone i know to read, it would be this one. This brief ebook looks at four ways this fascination went very, very wrong.
Maggie nelsons the argonauts is a genrebending memoir, a work. Miranda july, author of the first bad man maggie nelson cuts through our cultures prefabricated structures of thought and feeling with an intelligence whose ferocity is ultimately in the service of love. My first reaction to nelsons book was awestruck silence, such as one might experience when. Celebrated us writer explores the queer part of her life with both tenderness and intellectual rigour, writes sinead gleeson.
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