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Perversity to match the curtains: Queering the life story with Grayson Perry
Is a queer life story a contradiction in terms? In it, we are dealing not only with a form based on the impossibility of identity, but one that is intensely interested in the destabilising effects of sexuality and desire. In this paper, I take a tour round the autobiographical pots of the Turner Prize winner Grayson Perry, to ask what happens when the classic structures of the coming out story are perverted, postmodernised and, indeed, ceramicised. Perhaps these beautiful but undoubtedly naughty pots will prove one persons answer to the conundrum of telling a sex life today.
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PalgravePage range
118-130Pages
12.0Book title
Bodies, Sex and Desire from the Renaissance to the PresentPlace of publication
BasingstokeISBN
9780230283688Series
Genders and Sexualities in HistoryDepartment affiliated with
- Centre for Community Engagement Publications
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- Centre for Life History and Life Writing Research Publications
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Kate Fisher, Sarah ToulalanLegacy Posted Date
2012-02-06Usage metrics
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