Popular trauma culture selling the pain of others in the mass media /
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| Language: | English |
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New Brunswick, N.J. :
Rutgers University Press,
c2011.
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| Online Access: | http://site.ebrary.com/lib/ucy/Doc?id=10535579 |
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.