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Perversity to match the curtains: Queering the life story with Grayson Perry

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posted on 2023-06-07, 22:03 authored by Margaretta JollyMargaretta Jolly
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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Publication status

  • Published

Publisher

Palgrave

Page range

118-130

Pages

12.0

Book title

Bodies, Sex and Desire from the Renaissance to the Present

Place of publication

Basingstoke

ISBN

9780230283688

Series

Genders and Sexualities in History

Department affiliated with

  • Centre for Community Engagement Publications

Research groups affiliated with

  • Centre for Life History and Life Writing Research Publications

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  • No

Peer reviewed?

  • Yes

Editors

Kate Fisher, Sarah Toulalan

Legacy Posted Date

2012-02-06

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