02647oam 22005654a 450 991016394070332120221208201525.00-8142-7213-4(CKB)3710000001040921(OCoLC)1228476203(MdBmJHUP)muse33810(EXLCZ)99371000000104092120061107d2007 uy 0engur|||||||nn|ntxtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierMutha' Is Half A WordIntersection of Folklore, Vernacular, Myth, and Queerness in Black Female Culture /L.H. StallingsColumbus :Ohio State University Press,2007.©2007.1 online resource (xv, 334 p.)0-8142-5160-9 0-8142-1056-2 Includes bibliographical references (p. 311-328) and index.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.African American womenFolkloreAfrican American womenIntellectual lifeAfrican American womenRace identityGender identity in literatureLesbianism in literatureAfrican American women in literatureAmerican literatureWomen authorsHistory and criticismAmerican literatureAfrican American authorsHistory and criticismAfrican American womenFolklore.African American womenIntellectual life.African American womenRace identity.Gender identity in literature.Lesbianism in literature.African American women in literature.American literatureWomen authorsHistory and criticism.American literatureAfrican American authorsHistory and criticism.810.9/353Horton-Stallings LaMonda1023770MdBmJHUPMdBmJHUPBOOK9910163940703321Mutha' Is Half A Word2432573UNINA