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Maggie Nelson’s *The Argonauts* is a genre-bending memoir–or “autotheory”–that links her intimate romance with artist Harry Dodge, the experience of pregnancy, and the creation of a queer family to a sweeping examination of sexuality, gender, and the institutions of marriage and childrearing. Drawing on the work of theorists such as Susan Sontag and Roland Barthes, Nelson interrogates the limits and possibilities of love and language while advocating for radical individual freedom and the dignity of caretaking.
First publish date: 2015
Genre: Memoir/Personal Memoir
Authors: Maggie Nelson
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