MOTIVET E BALADAVE BALLKANIKE NË DY RRËFIME PERSONALE
MOTIVES OF THE OLD BALKANIC BALLADS IN TWO PERSONAL NARRATIVES

Summary/Abstract: Folklore has always been accompanied by a real or imagined connection between past (i.e. traditional) and present creative trends. Because of it’s bearer character folklore has the permanent and movable presence of folkloric motives from different genres created on different time. The oral personal narrative is a new narrative oral genre that is characterized with personal form of expression (has the self-same identity of the teller and the story’s main character), is based on experience of the narrator, has dramatic narrative structure, and the presence of tradition is not direct but through the traditional motives. During my researching in the field for personal narratives, I have found two autobiographical stories based on the experiences of two women, where were present two motives of old Balkanic ballads. First story has the motif of Penelope, a wife who waited nine years for her husband and the second has the motif of Besa, which is present in the Albanian variant of the ballad of Resurrection. By analyzing these two motives present on two oral personal narratives, I have documented the presence of traditional values of culture in the new forms of folklore in the Balkan.

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