Popular trauma culture : selling the pain of others in the mass media / / Anne Rothe.
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| Year of Publication: | 2011 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | xi, 206 p. |
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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.