Mutha' is half a word intersections of folklore, vernacular, myth, and queerness in black female culture / L.H. Stallings.

Author/creator Horton-Stallings, LaMonda
Format Book
Publication InfoColumbus : Ohio State University Press, ©2007.
Descriptionxv, 334 pages ; 24 cm.
Supplemental ContentTable of contents only
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.

SeriesBlack performance and cultural criticism
Black performance and cultural criticism. ^A756904
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.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. 311-328) and index.
LCCN 2006037239
ISBN9780814210567 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN0814210562 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN9780814291351 (cd-rom)
ISBN081429135X (cd-rom)

Availability

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Joyner General Stacks PS153.B53 H68 2007 ✔ Available Place Hold