Contributor
Harris, Jennifer, 1971-
Imprint:Lexington : University Press of Kentucky, c2007.
Descriptionviii, 303 p. ; 24 cm.
Note: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.
Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references and index.
