Mutha is Half a Word: Intersections of Folklore, Vernacular, Myth, and Queerness in Black Female Culture explores the importance of sexual desire in the formation of radical Black females subjectivities in Black women s culture through the trope of the indefinable trickster figure. L. H. Stallings offers distinct close readings of understudied African American women s texts through a critical engagement with folklore and queer theory. To date, most studies on the trickster figure have rarely reflected the boldness and daring of the figure itself. Emblematic of change and transgression,...