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viii, 303 p. ; 24 cm. 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. edited by Jennifer Harris and Elwood Watson. Includes bibliographical references and index. Winfrey, Oprah Criticism and interpretation PN1992.4.W56 O67 2007 791.4502/8092 9780813124261 (hardcover : alk. paper) 0813124263 (hardcover : alk. paper) 2006033479 http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip072/2006033479.html http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip072/2006033479.html DLC 061006 20200206103906.0 14586500