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Foreword vii
Introduction: Oprah Winfrey as Subject and Spectacle Jennifer Harris Elwood Watson 1
Oprah Winfrey and Race
The Specter of Oprah Winfrey: Critical Black Female Spectatorship Tarshia L. Stanley 35
My Mom and Oprah Winfrey: Her Appeal to White Women Linda Kay 51
The "Oprahization" of America: The Man Show and the Redefinition of Black Femininity Valerie Palmer-Mehta 65
Oprah Winfrey on the Stage
Oprah Winfrey and Women's Autobiography: A Televisual Performance of the Therapeutic Self Eva Illouz Nik John 87
From Fasting toward Self-Acceptance: Oprah Winfrey and Weight Loss in American Culture Ella Howard 101
Spiritual Talk: The Oprah Winfrey Show and the Popularization of the New Age Maria McGrath 125
Oprah Winfrey and Spirituality Denise Martin 147
Phenomenon on Trial: Reading Rhetoric at Texas Beef v. Oprah Winfrey Jennifer Richardson 165
Oprah Winfrey on the Page
Oprah's Book Club and the American Dream Malin Pereira 191
Some Lessons before Dying: Gender, Morality, and the Missing Critical Discourse in Oprah's Book Club Roberta F. Hammett Audrey Dentith 207
Making Corrections to Oprah's Book Club: Reclaiming Literary Power for Gendered Literacy Management Sarah Robbins 227
Knowing for Sure: Epistemologies of the Autonomous Self in O, the Oprah Magazine Marjorie Jolles 259
Oprah Winfrey's Branding of Personal Empowerment Damiana Gibbons 277
List of Contributors 293
Index 297
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Al Cress
reviewed The Oprah Phenomenon on March 09, 2008 The Oprah Phenomenon
Okay here goes a really harsh review...
I did not understand the purpose of this one-year experiment. After finishing the book, I did not gain any insights into anything. At least Oprah wants viewers to have a better life etc. What was this book for us readers? What am I to get out of this reading experience?
The author just went through all the advice from Oprah without giving much thought to the purpose of each advice. She would kiss her husband for ten seconds because she was told to. Without even trying, I could have told her that it would be useless because she didn't seem to understand why she was doing it. She wasn't trying to improve her life or her marriage. She was just going through motions. It was sometimes unpleasant to read because she wasn't enjoying "Living Oprah," and neither was I as a reader. What a waste of a year. And what a waste of my time reading this book. Worst of it all, it wasn't even funny. It didn't flow nor make sense at a time.
My advice: don't read it. If you are still curious, read the last chapter and be done with it.
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