第三代大屠殺文學是當代美國猶太文學的重要組成部分。在第一代親身經歷和第二代觀察記憶雙重缺失的后記憶時代,第三代作家試圖通過想象性創作,以再現文本的文本之方式與大屠殺取得聯系。妮可·克勞斯小說《愛的歷史》因其多重敘事聲音、大屠殺隱性在場、大屠殺美國化、后現代及其超越的書寫特征,成為后記憶時代第三代大屠殺文學的典范。

Unlike authors of the first and second-generation Holocaust literature in the Unites States, third-generation Jewish American novelists inevitably rely on imagination when representing the Holocaust in the post-memory context. Nicole Krauss’ s award-winning novel The History of Love adopts highly crafted representational strategies, such as multiple narrative voices, indirect references to the Holocaust, and Americanization of the Holocaust, exemplifying how third-generation writers manage to access the past via imagination.