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Record Nr.

UNINA9910163940703321

Autore

Horton-Stallings LaMonda

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Columbus : , : Ohio State University Press, , 2007

©2007

ISBN

0-8142-7213-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xv, 334 p.)

Disciplina

810.9/353

Soggetti

African American women - Folklore

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 - African American authors - History and criticism

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

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

Nota di contenuto

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.