Mutha' Is Half A Word
Horton-Stallings, LaMonda.
Mutha' Is Half A Word Intersection of Folklore, Vernacular, Myth, and Queerness in Black Female Culture / L.H. Stallings. - 1 online resource (xv, 334 p.) - Book collections on Project MUSE. .
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.
Open Access
9780814272138 0814272134
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.
Electronic books.
PS153.N5 / H68 2007
810.9/353
Mutha' Is Half A Word Intersection of Folklore, Vernacular, Myth, and Queerness in Black Female Culture / L.H. Stallings. - 1 online resource (xv, 334 p.) - Book collections on Project MUSE. .
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.
Open Access
9780814272138 0814272134
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.
Electronic books.
PS153.N5 / H68 2007
810.9/353