Includes bibliographical references (pages 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.
