Overview
- Format
- Book
- Published
- New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, [2011]
©2011 - Contents
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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. - Notes
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Includes bibliographical references 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.
Physical Details
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- English
- External Link
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Electronic version(s) available. Hosted by ProQuest
- ISBN
- 9780813551289
0813551285
9780813551296
0813551293 - Additional Form
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Electronic version(s) available internally at USHMM.
- Physical Description
- xi, 206 pages ; 24 cm
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