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

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Main Author: Rothe, Anne
Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, c2011.
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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.