Popular Trauma Culture : Selling the Pain of Others in the Mass Media /
Anne Rothe.
- New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, c2011.
- xi, 206 p. ; 24 cm.
- 302.23 .
Includes bibliographical references (p. 167-201) and index.
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.