Popular Trauma Culture

Klappentext In Popular Trauma Culture, Anne Rothe argues that American Holocaust discourse has a particular plot structureâ"characterized by a melodramatic conflict between good and evil and embodied in the core characters of victim/survivor and perpetratorâ"and that it provides the paradigm for representing personal experiences of pain and suffering in the mass media.

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ANNE ROTHE is an assistant professor of German at Wayne State University.

Inhalt

Preface
Acknowledgments

Introduction: Oprah at Auschwitz

Part I. Popular Trauma Culture: Generating the Paradigm in Holocaust Discourse

1. Holocaust Tropes
2. Victim Talk
3. American Survivors
4. Trauma Kitsch

Part II. Television: Watching the Pain of Others on Daytime Talk Shows

5. Talking Cures
6. Trauma Camp

Part III. Popular Literature: Reading the Pain of Others in Misery Memoirs

7. Selling Misery
8. Fake Suffering
9. Forging Child Abuse
10. Simulating Holocaust Survival

Epilogue: Fantasies of Witnessing

Notes
Index