Focusing on Oprah as an icon/inkblot, we can use our reactions to her as a Rorschach test: What do we project onto Oprah and what analytical blind spots result from these projections and the discursive anxieties that underlie them? The uneasiness, evident in Lofton’s tone throughout the book, is an index of fundamental contradictions that many of us, as members of the intellectual elite, embody.
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April 5th, 2011
Oprah, the Rorschach test
posted by Katherine Pratt EwingTags: American politics, capitalism, class, consumerism, culture, feminism, Glenn Beck, neoliberalism, politics, race, spirituality
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