Popular trauma culture : selling the pain of others in the mass media 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