personal narrative; ego document
A term from historical and social sciences for first-person writings such as diaries, letters, and memoirs that reveal personal experience.
歴史学者はエゴドキュメントを史料として重視する。
Historians value ego documents as historical sources.
この研究では、戦時中のエゴドキュメントを分析した。
This study analyzed wartime personal narratives.
Borrowed from English 'ego document', itself a translation of Dutch 'egodocument', a term coined by historian Jacques Presser.