Elementi slovenstva v odnosu do matične domovine in do latinskoameriške kulture v narativnem gradivu, dokumentiranem pri argentinskih Slovencih

The article is based on a month-long field research conducted on three locations among Slovenians in Argentina in 2019, with the aim of documenting their (folk) narrative material. Most of the Slovenians cooperating as informants in this research are emigrants who settled in Argentina after the Second World War as political refugees, or their descendants. Immediately after arrival, this Slovene community established Slovenian centres called “Slovenian Homes”, which took care of the education and cultivation of the Slovenian language and culture (and thus identity), a role they have preserved to this day. The analysis determines which Slovenian elements most often appear in the narrative material at the level of language and “traditional” culture in relation to the native homeland of Slovenia and to Latin American culture, and which distinctions between cultures are most emphasized.Prispevek temelji na enomesečni terenski raziskavi, ki je leta 2019 potekala na treh lokacijah v Argentini med slovenskimi priseljenci in njihovimi potomci z namenom dokumentiranja narativnega gradiva, predvsem slovstvene folklore. Večina pripovedovalcev, ki jih je raziskava zajela, so emigranti oz. njihovi potomci, ki so se v Argentino naselili po drugi svetovni vojni kot politični begunci. Ta slovenska skupnost je v novi deželi takoj po prihodu vzpostavila slovenske domove, ki so skrbeli za izobraževanje in gojenje slovenskega jezika in kulture (in s tem identitete) vse do danes. Analiza ugotavlja, kateri elementi slovenstva se v narativnem gradivu najbolj pogosto pojavljajo na nivoju jezika in »tradicionalne« kulture v odnosu do matične domovine Slovenije in do latinskoameriške kulture in katere distinkcije med kulturama so najbolj poudarjene