In Popular Trauma Culture, Anne Rothe argues that American
Holocaust discourse has a particular plot structure—characterized
by a melodramatic conflict between good and evil and embodied in
the core characters of victim/survivor and perpetrator—and that
it provides the paradigm for representing personal experiences of
pain and suffering in the mass media. The book begins with an
analysis of Holocaust clichés, including its political
appropriation, the notion of vicarious victimhood, the so-called
victim talk rhetoric, and the infusion of the composite survivor
figure with Social Darwinism. Readers then explore the embodiment
of popular trauma culture in two core mass media genres: daytime TV
talk shows and misery memoirs. Rothe conveys how victimhood and
suffering are cast as trauma kitsch on talk shows like Oprah and as
trauma camp on modern-day freak shows like Springer. The discussion
also encompasses the first scholarly analysis of misery memoirs,
the popular literary genre that has been widely critiqued in
journalism as pornographic depictions of extreme violence.
Currently considered the largest growth sector in book publishing
worldwide, many of these works are also fabricated. And since
forgeries reflect the cultural entities that are most revered, the
book concludes with an examination of fake misery memoirs.
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