The Oprah phenomenon
By: edited by Jennifer Harris and Elwood Watson
Contributors: Harris, Jennifer, 1971-; Watson, Elwood
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Lexington
Language: eng
Number of pages: 303
ISBN-13: 9780813124261
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. Pt. I. 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. 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; title: From fasting to 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. Pt. III. Oprah Winfrey and 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 Clue / 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