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.