Mutha' Is Half A Word Intersection of Folklore, Vernacular, Myth, and Queerness in Black Female Culture / L.H. Stallings.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Horton-Stallings, LaMonda.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African American women--Folklore.

African American women.

African American women--Intellectual life.

African American women--Race identity.

Gender identity in literature.

Lesbianism in literature.

African American women in literature.

American literature--Women authors--History and criticism.

American literature.

American literature--African American authors--History and criticism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xv, 334 p.)

Place of Publication:

Columbus : Ohio State University Press, 2007.

Contents:

The black woman and the trickster trope of unnaming

The erotics of a healing subjectivity: sexual desire, the spirit, and the divine nature of trickster

"Mutha' is half a word!": tar baby trope and blue material in black female comedy

Badd-nasty: tricking the tropes of the Bad man/Nigga and Queen B (?)

The black and white of Queen B(?)'s play

Queen B(?)s queering of neo-soul desire

Representin' for the bitches: Queen B(?) in hip-hop culture

Trickster's gift: a language of sexual rights through polymorphous erotics and voluptuous black women's sexualities.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 311-328) and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-8142-7213-4

OCLC:

1228476203