Popular trauma culture : selling the pain of others in the mass media / Anne Rothe.

  • Rothe, Anne.
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[2011], ©2011
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New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, [2011], ©2011.

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xi, 206 pages ; 24 cm

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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.

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Includes bibliographical references (p. 167-201) and index.

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    History of Medicine
    PS.U
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  • 9780813551289
  • 0813551285
  • 9780813551296
  • 0813551293