The Argonauts

autotheory intimacyqueer family grammarbirth as philosophy

Director

Maggie Nelson

Year

2015

Region

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This work has been selected for the Aravien index based on editorial review.

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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 artist Harry Dodge. This story, which...

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Maggie Nelson, 2015 — The Argonauts

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Carries identity forward while giving it a stronger essay expression.

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