Abstractreaders in love with maggie nelsons the argonauts have often praised her ability to use the analytic capacities and citational resources of critical theory to advance her personal narrative about queer sex and kinship. 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 maggie nelsons 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. A gorgeous book, inventive, fearless, and full of heart.
Find all the books, read about the author, and more. We, of course, have more than enough reason to question the sustainability of the future, but to emphasize singleness and deviant sexuality as glamorously radical at the expense of fragility, dependence, care, disability all of which are part of the experience of pregnancy and. 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 maggie nelsons the argonauts is a genrebending memoir, a work of autotheory offering fresh, fierce, and timely thinking about desire, identity, and. Maggie nelsons 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. In the argonauts, maggie nelson turns making the personal public into a romantic, intellectual wet dream. Maggie nelsons bluets gets some love in our blue issue. She is the recipient of many grants and awards, including a 2016 macarthur fellowship genius grant and a 2012 creative capital leadership fellowship. The argonauts isbn 9781925355604 pdf epub maggie nelson. The following is from maggie nelsons memoir, the argonauts. Maggie nelson is an american writer born in 1973 and the author of the book the argonauts. The argonauts is a voyage through parenting, partnership and transition maggie nelsons philosophical memoir uses her pregnancy and.
Her faculty page at calarts where she is a professor who lists her teaching interests as poetics. An intrepid voyage out to the frontiers of the latest thinking about love, language and family. An intrepid voyage out to the frontiers of the latest thinking about love, language, and family maggie nelsons. An intrepid voyage out to the frontiers of the latest thinking about love, language, and family. The argonauts is a oneperson call for combining theory and memoir, and maggie nelson does it so very beautifully. Featured content includes commentary on major characters, 25 important.
It binds an account of nelsons relationship with her partner and a journey to and through a. Maggie nelson, the argonauts, graywolf press, 2015. It binds an account of nelson s relationship with her partner and a journey to and through a. Argonautai were a band of heroes in greek mythology, who in the years before the trojan war, around 0 bc, accompanied jason to colchis in his quest to find the golden fleece. The argonauts is a voyage through parenting, partnership. Maggie nelson 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. Maggie nelsons 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. Winner, 2016 national book critics circle award for criticism. Winner, 2016 national book critics circle award for criticism maggie nelsons 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. 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.
The santa ana winds are shredding the bark off the eucalyptus trees in long white stripes. Kim gordon, author of girl in a band what a dazzlingly generous, gloriously unpredictable book. In the argonauts, the poet and critic maggie nelson recalls an art history seminar she attended with the scholars jane gallop and rosalind krauss. The following version of this book was used for the creation of this study guide. The argonauts is maggie nelson s ninth book, and its a crowded field, but it may be her best yet. The book is a continuous stream of thoughts, reflections and writings by the author. 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. It binds an account of nelsons relationship with her partner and a journey to and through a pregnancy to a rigorous exploration of. Nelson is a poet, critic, and nonfiction author of books including the art of cruelty. It binds an account of nelson s relationship with her partner and a journey to and through. Published two months after the author turned fortytwo, the slim, intense volume, which tells the. These generally broad constructs are explored alongside nelsons personal decision to give birth to and raise a child with her fluidlygendered partner. Maggie nelson, the argonauts, 2015, book cover what good or bad, ultimately, does avoidance of reproduction do.
This 57page guide for the argonauts by maggie nelson includes detailed chapter summaries and analysis, as well as several more indepth sections of expertwritten literary analysis. Maggie nelson, the argonauts graywolf press, minneapolis the first page of maggie nelsons memoir, the argonauts, contains the following passage. Text publishing the argonauts, book by maggie nelson. An intrepid voyage out to the frontiers of the latest thinking about love, language, and family maggie nelsons the argonauts is a genrebending memoir, a work of autotheory offering fresh, fierce, and timely thinking about desire, identity, and the. 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. Jess kibler is a portlandbased writer who has a special fondness for lyric essays. This is the culminating final project assignment for philosophy of sex and love, a firstyear introductory course. The project is designed to invite students to engage with the argonauts in philosophical and firstperson terms. The argonauts by maggie nelson a genrebending memoir offering fresh, fierce, and timely thinking about desire, identity, and the limitations and possibilities of love and language. Maggie nelson shows us what it means to be real, offering a way of thinking that. An intrepid voyage out to the frontiers of the latest thinking about love, language, and family maggie nelsons the argonauts is a genrebending memoir, a wo. Their name comes from their ship, argo, named after its builder, argus. Nelson and dodge and other queer outlaws are also modernday argonauts, exploring the greater shores of gender and sexuality through their lives, families and.
The argonauts is maggie nelsons ninth book, and its a crowded field, but it may be her best yet. The argonauts by maggie nelson graywolf press, may 2015 160 pages graywolf amazon maggie nelsons latest memoir, the argonauts, takes a critical look at maternity, parenting, and both the transqueer and heteronormativenuclear family. She is generally described as a genrebusting writer defying classification, working in autobiography, art criticism, theory, scholarship, and poetry. It binds an account of nelsons relationship with her partner and a journey to and through. Mostly i have felt myself becoming a servant of sadness. A friend and i risk the widowmakers by having lunch outside, during which she suggests i tattoo the words hard to get across my knuckles, as a reminder of this poses possible fruits. I found myself marking passages, messaging friends with quotations from the book, and most of all, reading chunks aloud to people. This story, which includes the authors account of falling in love with dodge, who is.
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