Building a Nonviolent Identity while Surrounded by Icons of Violence
Building a Nonviolent Identity while Surrounded by Icons of Violence

Author(s): Gina Aurora Necula, Alexandra Toma
Subject(s): Studies in violence and power, Economic development, Tourism
Published by: CEEOLPRESS
Keywords: structural violence; cultural violence; direct violence; euphemism; propaganda
Summary/Abstract: This paper mostly analyses the way violence is rebranded through public monuments belonging to a controlled manipulative narrative and how language is aimed to conceal reality, covering past trauma and pain and turning them into glamorous concepts like victory and glory. Art and language subtly translate societal violence and restructure reality.

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