The Oprah phenomenon
By: edited by Jennifer Harris and Elwood Watson.
Contributors: Harris, Jennifer, 1971-; Watson, Elwood.
Edition: Updated ed., Pbk. ed.
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Lexington, Ky
Language: eng
Number of pages: 320
ISBN-13: 9780813192369
Subjects: Winfrey, Oprah -- Criticism and interpretation
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : Oprah Winfrey as subject and spectacle / Jennifer Harris and Elwood Watson; title: Oprah Winfrey and race. The specter of Oprah Winfrey : critical black female spectatorship / Tarshia L. Stanley; title: My mom and Oprah Winfrey : her appeal to white women / Linda Kay; title: The "Oprahization" of America : The man show and the redefinition of black femininity / Valerie Palmer-Mehta; title: Oprah Winfrey on the stage. Oprah Winfrey and women's autobiography : a televisual performance of the therapeutic self / Eva Illouz and Nicholas John; title: From fasting toward self-acceptance : Oprah Winfrey and weight loss in American culture / Ella Howard; title: Spiritual talk : The Oprah Winfrey Show and the popularization of the new age / Maria McGrath; title: Oprah Winfrey and spirituality / Denise Martin; title: Phenomenon on trial : reading rhetoric at Texas beef v. Oprah Winfrey / Jennifer Richardson; title: Oprah Winfrey on the page. Oprah's book club and the American dream / Malin Pereira; title: Some lessons before dying : gender, morality, and the missing critical discourse in Oprah's book club / Roberta F. Hammett and Audrey Dentith; title: Making corrections to Oprah's Book club : reclaiming literary power for gendered literacy management / Sarah Robbins; title: Knowing for sure : epistemologies of the autonomous self in O, the Oprah magazine / Marjorie Jolles; title: Oprah Winfrey's branding of personal empowerment / Damiana Gibbons; title: "What is Africa to me?" : The Oprah Winfrey leadership academy / Jennifer Harris.