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Author:

Horton-Stallings, LaMonda

Title:

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

Publisher:

Ohio State University Press,

Copyright Date:

c2007

Description:

xv, 334 p. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

American literature--History and criticism.--History and criticism.
American literature--History and criticism.--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 (p. 311-328) and index.

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.

Series:

Black performance and cultural criticism

ISBN:

081429135X (cd-rom)
9780814291351 (cd-rom)
0814210562 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780814210567 (cloth : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)76416520

LCCN:

2006037239

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)