Mutha' Is Half A Word Intersection of Folklore, Vernacular, Myth, and Queerness in Black Female Culture /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Horton-Stallings, LaMonda.
Imprint:	Columbus : Ohio State University Press, 2007. Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 0000 2007.
Description:	1 online resource (xv, 334 p.)
Language:	English
Series:	Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subject:	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. African American women. African American women in literature. African American women -- Intellectual life. African American women -- Race identity. American literature -- African American authors. American literature -- Women authors. Gender identity in literature. Lesbianism in literature. Criticism, interpretation, etc. Folklore.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12481012

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Other authors / contributors:	Project Muse. distributor.
ISBN:	9780814272138 0814272134 9780814210567 (cloth : alk. paper) 0814210562 (cloth : alk. paper) 9780814291351 (cd-rom) 081429135X (cd-rom)
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (p. 311-328) and index. Description based on print version record.

Table of 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.

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