Stories of Oprah
Subtitle: the Oprahfication of American culture
By: edited by Trystan T. Cotten and Kimberly Springer.
Contributors: Cotten, Trystan T., 1986-; Springer, Kimberly, 1970-
Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Jackson
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781604734072
Subjects: Winfrey, Oprah -- Influence; United States -- Civilization -- 1970-
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : delineating the contours of the Oprah culture industry / Kimberly Springer; title: Oprah the woman, Oprah the empire. Beginnings with O / John Howard; title: "I'm everywoman" : Oprah Winfrey and feminist identification / Jennifer L. Rexroat; title: New age soul : the gendered translation of new age spirituality on The Oprah Winfrey show / Karlyn Crowley; title: Contesting the Oprah experts. Post[ed]structuralism? Oprah's message boards, soul stories, and the everyday lives of women / Sherra Schick; title: Oprah para mujeres Chicanas : a survey of the impact of Oprah's message on chicanas / Adriana Katzew and Lilia de Katzew; title: Confessions from at-risk teens : abstinence, the social construction of promiscuity, and The Oprah Winfrey show / Katherine Gregory; title: Oprah goes to Africa : philanthropic consumption and political (dis)engagement / Heather Laine Talley and Monica J. Casper; title: The Oprahfication of media. Oprah and the new news / Kathleen Dixon and Kacie Jossart; title: The Oprahfication of 9/11 : September 11, the war in Iraq, and The Oprah Winfrey show / Jaap Kooijman; title: From the Nobel to Oprah : Toni Morrison, body politics, and Oprah's book club / Edith Frampton; title: Lost in translation : irony and contradiction in Harpo's production of Zora Neale Hurston's Their eyes were watching God / Trystan T. Cotten.