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Title The Oprah phenomenon / edited by Jennifer Harris and Elwood Watson.

Imprint Lexington : University Press of Kentucky, c2007.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe 2nd Floor Stacks  791.45028 W726Bo 2007    ---  Available
Description viii, 303 p. ; 24 cm.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Introduction: Oprah Winfrey as subject and spectacle / Jennifer Harris and Elwood Watson. Pt. I. Oprah Winfrey and race. The specter of Oprah Winfrey: critical black female spectatorship / Tarshia L. Stanley -- My mom and Oprah Winfrey: her appeal to white women / Linda Kay -- The "Oprahization" of America: The man show and the redefinition of black femininity / Valerie Palmer-Mehta. Pt. II. Oprah Winfrey on the stage. Oprah Winfrey and women's autobiography: a televisual performance of the therapeutic self / Eva Illouz and Nik John -- From fasting to self-acceptance: Oprah Winfrey and weight loss in American culture / Ella Howard -- Spiritual talk: The Oprah Winfrey show and the popularization of the New Age / Maria McGrath -- Oprah Winfrey and spirituality / Denise Martin -- Phenomenon on trial: reading rhetoric at Texas Beef v. Oprah Winfrey / Jennifer Richardson. Pt. III. Oprah Winfrey on the page. Oprah's Book Club and the American dream / Malin Pereira -- Some lessons before dying: gender, morality, and the missing critical discourse in Oprah's Book Club / Roberta F. Hammett and Audrey Dentith -- Making corrections to Oprah's Book Club: reclaiming literary power for gendered literacy management / Sarah Robbins -- Knowing for sure: epistemologies of the autonomous self in O, the Oprah magazine / Marjorie Jolles -- Oprah Winfrey's branding of personal empowerment / Damiana Gibbons.
Subject Winfrey, Oprah -- Criticism and interpretation.
Added Author Harris, Jennifer, 1971-
Watson, Elwood.
ISBN 9780813124261 (hardcover : alk. paper)
0813124263 (hardcover : alk. paper)
Standard No. YDXCP 2498390
NZ1 11065595
NLC 20080007597
AU@ 000040983987

 
    
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