Historians disagree about whether realism or reflexivity best represents genocide

Evidence

Saul Friedlander asserts that “there are limits to representation which should not be but can easily be transgressed (1992:3; emphasis in original). Berel Lang (1990:151) argues that only literal representationalist narratives can bear the test of “authenticity and truthfulness.” Hayden White, who pioneered our understanding of how realist historical narratives are produced (White, 1978), counters that such realism springs from the same modernist order as the Holocaust itself; more critical, reflexive, and experimental techniques are thus needed to reveal this relationship (White, 1992). — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 260

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to debates in other vault sources on historiography — the limits-of-representation question touched in the Spanish Armada works and narrative theory readings.
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 260