A entrevista de narrativa de vida: uma abordagem que revela um gênero

Abstract

This work aims to approach the strategies of elaboration and execution of life narrative interviews as a method for the production of data for qualitative research in the area of Social Sciences and Humanities. The life narrative interview has specific peculiarities generated by the gender itself and that need to be contemplated in order to produce a relationship between the story told and the socio-historical context. The senses, beliefs, values about oneself and about the world, exposed to each statement, guide and justify the actions of the informants, in addition to bringing out the representation of a particular self, but not independent of the social body. The perspective adopted here is that of the ethno-sociological narrative of life, formulated by Bertaux (2010), and the dialogism of Bakhtin (2016), in a debate about the latencies of analysis that the investigations of life stories reveal about social phenomena. Ricoeur (1997) presents the implications of a self historically located in the present, but which refers to the past and the future. The discursivization of experience as an action on oneself exposes a handcraft and daily mode of communication. The process of story collection is also part of narrativization and, as such, requires as much attention as the moment of analysis. When dealing with life narratives, the meeting of two singularities requires commitment and reciprocity for the creation of an identity discourse.