The Thorny Destiny of the Bessarabian Migrant in Current Prose Cover Image

Destinul frânt al migrantului basarabean în proza actuală
The Thorny Destiny of the Bessarabian Migrant in Current Prose

Author(s): Felicia Cenușa
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Studies of Literature, Theory of Literature
Published by: Institutul de Filologie Română „Bogdan Petriceicu-Hasdeu”
Keywords: migration; novel; post-communist period; identity; tradition;

Summary/Abstract: In this study the author refers not only to the topic of illegal emigration, particularly to the issue of human trafficking, reflected in the novels written by Liliana Corobca and Stela Branzeanu – two writers from the Republic of Moldova, but also to the way this phenomenon is reflected in the novels of other writers whose protagonists represent the current situation in Bessarabia. The novels do simply offer solutions to the situation in which the characters are, but they tend to make the reading public aware of illegal migration and human trafficking as well as to draw attention to the identity problems in the Republic of Moldova. The authors focus more on the subject and less on the aesthetic finality or on the architecture of the writings, their focus is basically the dialogues, the direct discourse, which is rather journalistic, as well as the simplification of the lexical props, following the desideratum of accessibility and sensitization of the reader.

  • Issue Year: 2021
  • Issue No: 3
  • Page Range: 17-25
  • Page Count: 9
  • Language: English, Romanian