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An intrepid voyage out to the frontiers of the latest thinking about love, language, and family
A timelyΒ and genre-bending memoir that offers fresh and fierce reflectionsΒ on motherhood, desire, identity and feminism.
AtΒ the centre ofΒ The ArgonautsΒ is the love story between Maggie Nelson andΒ the artist Harry Dodge, who is fluidly gendered. As Nelson undergoes theΒ transformationsΒ of pregnancy,Β she exploresΒ the challenges and complexities of mothering and queer familyΒ making.
Writing in the tradition of publicΒ intellectuals like Susan Sontag, Nelson uses arresting prose even as sheΒ questions the limits of language.Β TheΒ ArgonautsΒ is an intrepid voyage out to the frontiersΒ of love, language, andΒ family.
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