Therapy for the shock: 19th-century storytelling and post-communist emigration

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Narrative codes evoke themes of domesticity and sentimentality amid economic migration struggles, highlighting essential social values.
Published novels before Romania's EU entry in 2007 reflect the emotional impacts of neo-liberal policies on citizens from both countries.
The methodology includes a literary analysis of Romanian-language novels assessing their linkage to post-communist labor migration circumstances.
These findings imply that literary depictions can act as ideological compensations for the challenges faced by migrants in a neo-liberal context.

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This article analyzes emigration's impact on societal narrative in Romania and Moldova, suggesting neo-liberalism complicates storytelling.

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This article analyzes emigration's impact on societal narrative in Romania and Moldova, suggesting neo-liberalism complicates storytelling.