Mutha is half a word
Subtitle: intersections of folklore, vernacular, myth, and queerness in black female culture
By: L.H. Stallings.
Publisher: Ohio State University Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Columbus
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780814210567; 9780814291351
Subjects: American literature -- African American authors -- History and criticism; American literature -- women authors -- History and criticism; African American women in literature; Lesbianism in literature; Gender identity in literature; African American women -- Race identity; African American women -- Intellectual life; African American women -- Folklore
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The black woman and the trickster-trope of unnaming; title: The erotics of a healing subjectivity: sexual desire, the spirit, and the divine nature of trickster; title: "Mutha is half a word!": tar baby trope and blue material in black female comedy; title: Badd-nasty: tricking the tropes of the Bad Nigga and Queen Bee; title: The black and white of Queen B(?)'s play; title: Queen B(?)s queering of neo-soul desire; title: Representin' for the bitches: Queen B(?) in hip-hop; title: Trickster's gift: a language of sexual rights through polymorphous erotics and voluptuous black womens' sexualities.