Koncept spontánnej autobiografie – Inšpirácia orálnej histórie folkloristikou
Concept of spontaneous autobiography – Inspitation of oral history by folkloristics

Summary/Abstract: Autobiographical narratives and narrative interviews are among the so-called egodocuments as one of the sources of oral history. The methodology of oral history considers the so-called narrative interview. The paper characterizes the results of folkloristics in Slovakia on the topic of narrative interpretation of the past. The aim of the paper is also to characterize the concept of spontaneous autobiography and to introduce it into professional discourse within the methodology of oral history. This concept, based on empirical experience and theoretical conclusions of folkloristics, emphasizes the personality of the narrator and his authentic self-expression in the most natural narrative situations. He points to the principle of narrator authentication, which thematically and genre-wise constructs the narrative image of the past as freely as possible. The researcher thus obtains data on topics, periods, attitudes, which in his narrated life story the narrator considers relevant and worthy of narrative representation.

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