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

By: Contributor(s): Publication details: New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, c2011.Description: xi, 206 pSubject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 302.23 22
LOC classification:
  • P96.P73 R68 2011eb
Online resources:
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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E-Book Taylor's Library-TU 302.23 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) e-book

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.

Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2011. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.