Popular trauma culture selling the pain of others in the mass media /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Rothe, Anne
Corporate Author:	ebrary, Inc
Format:	Electronic eBook
Language:	English
Published:	New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, c2011.
Subjects:	Psychic trauma and mass media. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), in mass media. Electronic books.
Online Access:	An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view
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Table of Contents:

Introduction : Oprah at Auschwitz
Popular trauma culture : generating the paradigm in Holocaust discourse. Holocaust tropes
Victim talk
American survivors
Trauma kitsch
Television : watching the pain of others on daytime talk shows. Talking cures
Trauma camp
Popular literature : reading the pain of others in misery memoirs. Selling misery
Fake suffering
Forging child abuse
Simulating Holocaust survival
Epilogue : fantasies of witnessing.