Anne Rothe

Popular Trauma Culture

Selling the Pain of Others in the Mass Media

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rutgers University Press
• Seitenzahl: 222
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. September 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 230mm x 154mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 334g
• ISBN-13: 9780813551296
• ISBN-10: 0813551293
• Artikelnr.: 33771058

Autorenporträt

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

Inhaltsangabe

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