![]() ![]() ![]() For Nelson, Krauss’s take-down forces her to side with Gallop and then figure out why. ![]() In other words, we were aging.”Įarly on in “The Argonauts,” for example, one star female academic - Rosalind Krauss - attacks another - Jane Gallop - for new work: an AESTHETIC EXPLICATION OF a series of slides of herself at home with her husband and baby. On the inside, we were two human animals undergoing transformation beside each other, bearing loose witness. “On the surface, it may have seemed as though your body was becoming more ‘male,’ mine, more and more ‘female.’ But that’s not how it felt on the inside. In one particularly striking moment Nelson describes being pregnant as Dodge is getting testosterone shots and is on a trip to Florida so he can get surgery. But some of the most exhilarating moments bring you straight into her rapidly shifting personal life. While this is happening, Nelson looks back - quoting her favorites from 20th- and 21st-century literature and theory to make sense of her present. “The Argonauts’’ moves forward in short paragraphs, like a prose poem, through the birth of Nelson’s child. The plot, as much as there is one, follows Nelson as she starts a family with Harry Dodge, the female to male transgender person and performance artist she falls in love with and marries. ![]()
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