The Argonauts

Short description: Nonfiction book by poet and critic Maggie Nelson

The Argonauts

The 2016 paperback cover of The Argonauts by Maggie Nelson

Author| Maggie Nelson
Country| United States
Language| English
Genre| Autotheory
Publisher| Graywolf Press

Publication date

| May 5, 2015
Media type| Print
Pages| 160
Award| 2015 National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism
ISBN| 1555977073

This page is about the book by Maggie Nelson. For the mythological heroes, see Argonauts. For other uses, see Argonaut (disambiguation).

The Argonauts is a book by poet and critic Maggie Nelson, published in 2015. It mixes philosophical theory with memoir.[1]

## Contents

The book discusses Nelson's romantic relationship with the transgender artist Harry Dodge and her experience being pregnant with her son Iggy, as well as topics like the death of a parent, transgender embodiment, academia, familial relationships, and the limitations of language.[2] Told in non-chronological vignettes interspersed with quotations, Nelson also explores and criticizes ideas from several philosophers including Gilles Deleuze, Judith Butler and Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick.[3]

The title is a reference to Roland Barthes' idea that to love someone is similar to an Argonaut who constantly replaces parts of their ship without the ship changing names.[4]

## Awards

The book won a National Book Critics Circle Award for criticism for books in 2015.[5][6][7][8] It was nominated for the Goodreads Choice Award for autobiography in 2015, the Folio Prize in 2017,[9] and was a finalist for The Leslie Feinberg Award for Trans and Gender-Variant Literature in 2016.[10][11]

## References

1. ↑ Als, Hilton (April 11, 2016). "Maggie Nelson's Many Selves". The New Yorker. https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/04/18/maggie-nelsons-many-selves. Retrieved September 11, 2021.
2. ↑ Fontenot, Andrea (July 13, 2015). "Unpacking Maggie Nelson's 'The Argonauts'". https://www.kcet.org/shows/artbound/unpacking-maggie-nelsons-the-argonauts.
3. ↑ Marcus, Sara (April 30, 2015). "Review: An intimate look at a fluid family in Maggie Nelson's 'The Argonauts'". Los Angeles Times. https://www.latimes.com/books/jacketcopy/la-ca-jc-maggie-nelson-20150503-story.html.
4. ↑ Feigel, Lara (March 27, 2016). "The Argonauts by Maggie Nelson review – a radical approach to genre and gender". The Guardian. http://www.theguardian.com/books/2016/mar/27/the-agronauts-maggie-nelson-observer-review.
5. ↑ Dean, Michelle (March 18, 2016). "Margo Jefferson and Maggie Nelson win National Book Critics Circle Awards". The Guardian. http://www.theguardian.com/books/2016/mar/18/margo-jefferson-maggie-nelson-win-book-critics-circle-awards.
6. ↑ "Nelson ’94 Receives National Book Critics Circle Award for Argonauts" (in en-US). https://newsletter.blogs.wesleyan.edu/2016/03/28/nelsonnookaward/.
7. ↑ "Maggie Nelson Wins National Book Critics Circle Award" (in en-US). 2016-03-23. https://blog.calarts.edu/2016/03/23/maggie-nelson-wins-national-book-critics-circle-award/.
8. ↑ "The Argonauts | Graywolf Press". https://www.graywolfpress.org/books/argonauts.
9. ↑ Cain, Sian (2017-04-06). "Folio prize returns with nonfiction joining novels on the 2017 shortlist" (in en-GB). The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. https://www.theguardian.com/books/2017/apr/06/folio-prize-returns-with-nonfiction-joining-novels-on-the-2017-shortlist.
10. ↑ "The Leslie Feinberg Award for Trans and Gender-Variant Literature" (in en-US). https://publishingtriangle.org/awards/trans-gender-variant-literature/.
11. ↑ Abi-Karam, Andrea (2016-04-22). "Nathanaël Wins Publishing Triangle Award for Trans & Gender Variant Literature" (in en). https://nightboat.org/nathanael-wins-publishing-triangle-award-for-trans-gender-variant-literature/.

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