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The Oprah phenomenon / edited by Jennifer Harris and Elwood Watson.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Winfrey, Oprah--Criticism and interpretation.
- Winfrey, Oprah.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (viii, 303 pages.)
- Place of Publication:
- Lexington : University Press of Kentucky, ©2007.
- Contents:
- Introduction: Oprah Winfrey as subject and spectacle / Jennifer Harris and Elwood Watson
- pt. 1. 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. 2. 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. 3. 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Electronic reproduction. New York Available via World Wide Web.
- Description based on print version record.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Oprah phenomenon.
- ISBN:
- 9780813159942 (electronic bk.)
- 0813159946 (electronic bk.)
- Publisher Number:
- 99993825258
- 9780813124261
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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