“포스트-기억 세대”를 넘어서: 연속과 경계 확장으로서의 포스트-기억 세대 담론과 홀로코스트 재현

This study examines the shifting concept of the post-memory generation in the 2000s. This period coincided with a reunified Germany and the growth of the third generation in the post-war period, which saw a number of changes in Holocaust representation. The post-memory generation discourse, initially proposed by Marianne Hirsch in the 1990s, refers to the fact that Holocaust victims’ family have memories of the Holocaust that differ from official history due to their private memories about the violence inherited from their parents. In particular, the post-memory generation discourse became a key point in the inheritance of ethical attitudes towards the Holocaust representation in the context of the postmodern and commodified modes of the Holocaust representation in the 1990s. The works that emerged in German society in the 2000s go beyond the ethical stance embedded in the early concept of the post-memory generation. Rather than seeking to comprehend the traumatic memory of the parent generation, they focus on how the next generation will live their lives in a close relationship with the legacy of the past. This study discusses how the concept of post-memory generation has changed through discussions of Am Ende kommen Touristen, Le Petite Prairie aux bouleaux, Caché, which emerged in the 2000s. By focusing on the changing meaning of “post” as well as the blurring boundaries between perpetrator and victim, which had been imbedded in the Holocaust discourse, this study examines what the concept of the post-memory generation used to be and how the cultural and ethical value has transformed while expanding its own boundaries in the 2000s.