QUENTIN CRISP, CAMP AND THE ART OF SHAMELESSNESS
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Quentin Crisp (1908-1999) made his reputation through the lifelong pursuit of an inimitable style, a self-fashioning which amounts to the creation of a coherent camp personality. This essay investigates the nexus between gender performativity, camp and the management of shame in a politics and aesthetics of shamelessness