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In recent years, a number of Iranian American women have written and published memoirs of a return to Iran. One motif that these memoirs share is their concern with language as a key element of cultural identity. The article examines these memoirs as negotiations of identity through language. Relying on Joshua Fishman's anthropological definition of language and ethnicity as being, doing, and knowing, and on Taghi Modarressi's notion of "accented writing," this article examines these writers in terms of their relationship to Persian as a key component of the self. As these memoirists narrate their journeys between Iran and the United States, they perform a translation of self across the boundaries of language. Some narrate an "accented identity" that celebrates hybridity; others acknowledge their assimilation into American society and into the English language. All attempt to reclaim Persian as an artifact, if not a medium of cultural belonging.

Ronald Reagan's iconic, 1984 advertisement, "Morning in America," has served as an ideological pole star for Republican identity for the past four decades. More recently, the political action committee, The Lincoln Project, a group of ex-Republicans, produced a number of ads highly critical of President Donald Trump's administration. One specific ad, "Mourning in America," uses the form of the original 1984 ad to communicate a set of radically different ideas from the original. This article fuses Black's second persona and Wander's third persona to Charland's idea of constitutive rhetoric to explore how "Morning in America" constitutes a Republican identity via a matrimonial symbolism that connects candidate to a gauzy, constructed community and imagined culture. We argue that the Lincoln Project's "Mourning in America" deconstitutes the very ideals promulgated in the original ad through a stark funereal symbolism. The implications of this symbolism on the Republican identity are discussed in the conclusion.

Smith and Nimmo assert that contemporary political conventions orchestrate an important legitimation ritual. Asignificant part of this ritual is composed of speechmaking. The 2004 Democratic and Republican conventions had a few notable speech moments. Specifically, the speeches by Illinois State Senator Barack Obama and California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger garnered attention for both them and their party leaders. Along with the excitement these two speakers generated, they shared a common narrative thread in their two speeches. The difference between the speeches, the authors argue, lies in how the speakers enacted different elements of the moralistic and materialistic forms of the American dream. In accordance with Honig, the authors argue that Obama and Schwarzenegger functioned in this iconic way to reenchant, rescue, and reinvigorate each party's sense of purity, innocence, and goodness.

" Middle East Studies after September 11: Neo-Orientalism, American Hegemony and Academia will show the long-term implications of current approaches to Middle East scholarship on the internal transformation of Middle Eastern societies. It describes the complex relationship between American academia and state government: a relationship which has influenced and restructured the state, society and politics in the Middle East as well as in the United States. It engages the disciplines of Sociology, Political Science, Anthropology, History and International Studies, while maintaining the epistemological, methodological, and ontological insights of a sociological approach to the Middle East " (Verlagsbeschreibung)

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Foreword -- Introduction -- Light/Shadow -- The Summer I Disappeared -- Sacrifices -- Shadow Nation -- Two Minutes to Midnight -- When We Were Lions -- Fortune-Tellers -- Silkscreen -- Hookah, Once upon a Time -- Think of the Trees -- Pushing the Boundaries -- Uninvited Guest -- Coding/Decoding -- The Name on My Coffee Cup -- Negotiating Memories -- In Praise of Big Noses -- Transmutations of/by Language -- Gilad, My Enemy -- Two Countries, One Divided Self -- Mothering across the Cultural Divide -- My Mom Killed Michael Jackson -- Am I an Immigrant? -- 1,916 Days -- Culture beyond Language -- Memory/Longing -- Forget Me Not -- Errand -- The Color of the Bricks -- Renounce and Abjure All Allegiance -- Learning Farsi -- Delam Tang Shodeh -- Walking with Zahra -- Halva -- Her Orange-Blossom Tea -- The Iranians of Mercer Island -- Acknowledgments -- Contributors