Practice question · True or false
A memoir written fifty years after the event is a primary source for the memory, even if not for the event.
Hints
- Primary to what question?
- The category depends on the question asked.
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True
Why
True. 'Primary' is a relation between a source and a question, not a property of the document. A 1990s memoir of 1940 is secondary evidence for what happened and primary evidence for how it was remembered, narrated and used, which is precisely what memory studies takes as its subject.
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