The syllabus asks the student to consider;
1. The relationship between individual memory and documented evidence
2. The interplay of personal experience, memory and documented evidence to broaden their understanding of how history and personal history are shaped and represented
My understanding is that we need to recognise that what we recieve or respond to through any text is the deliberately or subconsciosly constructed perspective or viewpoint of the composer.
Critical theory has emphasised the relative nature of 'truth' and 'reality' as it is depicted in any text, historical documentation or otherwise. Even the most factual works are subject to editing, ordering, omission, selection, emphasis, etc.
With this knowledge, we must analyse different texts to evaluate the relationship between a 'historical' document and a record of personal memory, developing our own thesis about their relationship to each other, and how history and memory are both are presented within any text.
any thoughts...?