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Oprah Winfrey is the protagonist of the story to be told here, but this book has broader intentions: to reflect on the meaning of popular culture and to offer new strategies for interpreting that meaning. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
therapeutic biography, therapeutic code, frey show, therapeutic narrative, talk show genre, cultural habitus, contemporary polities, autobiographical discourse, cultural genre, psychic suffering, cultural schemas, trauma narrative, symbolic tools, cultural enterprise Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Oprah Winfrey, African American, New Age, The Phil Donahue Show, Know This Much Is True, Max Weber, Trudi Chase, White Oleander, Angel Network, Patricia Hill Collins, Lawrence Levine, Martha Nussbaum, Janice Radway, Eddie Reynolds, Elie Wiesel, Joyce Carol Oates, Oprah Web, The Deep End of the Ocean, Walter Benjamin, Arjun Appadurai, Arthur Kleinman, Hannah Arendt, Oprah's Web, The Pilot's Wife, Tipper Gore New!
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Oprah Winfrey is the protagonist of the story to be told here, but this book has broader intentions: to reflect on the meaning of popular culture and to offer new strategies for interpreting that meaning. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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Oprah Winfrey, African American, New Age, The Phil Donahue Show, Know This Much Is True, Max Weber, Trudi Chase, White Oleander, Angel Network, Patricia Hill Collins, Lawrence Levine, Martha Nussbaum, Janice Radway, Eddie Reynolds, Elie Wiesel, Joyce Carol Oates, Oprah Web, The Deep End of the Ocean, Walter Benjamin, Arjun Appadurai, Arthur Kleinman, Hannah Arendt, Oprah's Web, The Pilot's Wife, Tipper Gore New!
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- The Deep End of the Ocean (Oprah's Book Club) by Jacquelyn Mitchard on page 107, Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Breath, Eyes, Memory (Oprah's Book Club) by Edwidge Danticat in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Weighty Issues: Fatness and Thinness As Social Problems (Social Problems and Social Issues) by Donna Maurer in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- The Philosophy of Literary Form by Kenneth Burke on page 195, and Back Matter
- Transnational Connections: Culture, People, Places (Comedia) by Ulf Hannerz in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
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- The Oprah Phenomenon by Jennifer Harris on 4 pages
- The Gospel According To Oprah by Marcia Z. Nelson in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Celebrity Culture (Key Ideas) by Ellis Cashmore in Back Matter
- Handbook New Sexuality Studies (Routledge International Handbooks) by Seidman/Meeks/F on page 36
- Culture, Capitalism, and Democracy in the New America by Professor Richard Harvey Brown in Back Matter
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