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

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Lexington : University Press of Kentucky, c2007.Description: viii, 303 p. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 9780813124261 (hardcover : alk. paper)
  • 0813124263 (hardcover : alk. paper)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 791.4502/8092 22
LOC classification:
  • PN1992.4.W56 O67 2007
Online resources:
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.
Item type: Delbert W. Baker Special Leadership Collection
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Current library Collection Call number Vol info Status Date due Barcode
Judith Thomas Library Delbert W. Baker Special Leadership Collection DWB Special Leadership Collection PN 1992.4 .W56 O67 2007 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) AUA20183 Available AUA20183

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.