Melanie A Murray
Biographic Data
| ID | 83857 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Melanie A Murray |
| GIVEN NAMES | Melanie A |
| FAMILY NAME | Murray |
| SIGNATURE | MURRAY M A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Michigan–Dearborn |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7561-0389 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 21 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1914 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Calm in the Storm
This article examines one new media source that was shared in the Academic Mothers Facebook group: Emily Oster’s parenting newsletter. Oster’s newsletter specifically focused on parental decision making during the COVID-19 pandemic. This article focuses on the messages and themes in the newsletter during the first six months of the pandemic in the United States. That time was marked by new and increased uncertainty for parents around family healt…
Pitchfork’s authenticity problem
This article turns a critical eye on the arguments deployed by Pitchfork, one of the most popular music websites, when reviewing two artists: Vampire Weekend and Lil Wayne. Rhetorically analyzing the reception of these two artists is illuminating because both had indie breakouts in 2008, both release genre-spanning music, and both have had over a decade of commercial success. However, Vampire Weekend’s whiteness enables them to benefit from authe…
Female Fashion as Leisure and Labor on Reddit
This paper examines a vibrant online community called Female Fashion Advice, which exemplifies convergence culture because its members both produce and consume its content. This large subreddit offers a compelling alternative to traditional fashion journalism and empowers women to partake in a hobby that has been denigrated due to its association with femininity. Using grounded practical theory, we found that fashion is treated as serious leisure…
White, Male, and Bartending in Detroit
The hipster scene in Detroit, Michigan, is explored via participant observation and in-depth interviews. Participants used hipster norms as a resource for masculinity dilemmas, including a lack of white- or blue-collar jobs and stable female partners. The analysis examines how these men successfully enacted their progressive values in some arenas (read: gender) but not in others (race relations). More specifically, their emphasis on the creative …
In search of Annie Drew
In search of Annie Drew: Jamaica Kincaid’s mother and muse." Journal of Postcolonial Writing, 55(1), pp. 135–136
Leave Your Emotions at Home”
This article explores how bereaved workers in white-collar jobs manage their emotional expression with coworkers in professional work spaces. During times of bereavement, employees are faced with the challenge of both maintaining a professional identity and renegotiating personal identity in relation to their loss. This challenge is rooted in separate spheres thinking that has distinguished private life, emotions, and femininity from public life,…
Communities in contemporary anglophone Caribbean short stories
Lucy Evans’s interdisciplinary study places literary studies and anthropology in dialogue, explaining that both are “influenced by the social and cultural position of the writer” (206). Her analysi
Troubling borders
This inspiring anthology of short stories, poems, paintings and photographs uses a collage of art forms to portray varied, and usually under-represented, female identities. The focus, as the title
Pathologies of paradise
Pathologies of Paradise: Caribbean Detours, winner of the Nicolas Guillen Award for “Outstanding Book in Philosophical Literature” (2014), consists of five chapters plus an introduction and epilogu
Terror and reconciliation
Terror and reconciliation: Sri Lankan anglophone literature, 1983–2009." Journal of Postcolonial Writing, 50(1), pp. 120–121
The Caribbean novel since 1945
The Caribbean short story
edited by Lucy Evans, Mark McWatt and Emma Smith, Leeds, Peepal Tree Press, 2011, 356 pp., £19.99, ISBN 978 1 8452 3126 2 Caribbean literature and the public sphere: from the plantation to the post
Empire and the house in postcolonial fiction
In this essay I argue that the notion of colonial "paradise" endorsed in island discourse is challenged in the works of Caribbean author Lawrence Scott (Witchbroom, 1992) and the Sri Lankan writers Romesh Gunesekera (The Sandglass, 1998) and Jean Arasanayagam ("Time the Destroyer", 1995). The "colonial house" in these postcolonial texts is a trope of management and control for the owner, but displays the paradox of paradise and prison as the wome…
The Splendour That Was Egypt
A Witch-Glove from Wiltshire
Two Trials for Witchcraft
Many objections have been raised as to the value of the evidence given by witches. It is argued that a questionary was drawn up by the inquisitors and used by all witch-hunters, hence the similarity in the accounts. Records of two trials are presented in full: Alexander Hamilton in Edinburgh, 1630 and Lillias Adie in Torryburn, 1704
The Cult of the Drowned in Egypt
Terror and reconciliation
Terror and reconciliation: Sri Lankan anglophone literature, 1983–2009." Journal of Postcolonial Writing, 50(1), pp. 120–121
Leave Your Emotions at Home”
This article explores how bereaved workers in white-collar jobs manage their emotional expression with coworkers in professional work spaces. During times of bereavement, employees are faced with the challenge of both maintaining a professional identity and renegotiating personal identity in relation to their loss. This challenge is rooted in separate spheres thinking that has distinguished private life, emotions, and femininity from public life,…
The Caribbean short story
edited by Lucy Evans, Mark McWatt and Emma Smith, Leeds, Peepal Tree Press, 2011, 356 pp., £19.99, ISBN 978 1 8452 3126 2 Caribbean literature and the public sphere: from the plantation to the post
The Splendour That Was Egypt
Pitchfork’s authenticity problem
This article turns a critical eye on the arguments deployed by Pitchfork, one of the most popular music websites, when reviewing two artists: Vampire Weekend and Lil Wayne. Rhetorically analyzing the reception of these two artists is illuminating because both had indie breakouts in 2008, both release genre-spanning music, and both have had over a decade of commercial success. However, Vampire Weekend’s whiteness enables them to benefit from authe…
The Caribbean novel since 1945
A Witch-Glove from Wiltshire
The Cult of the Drowned in Egypt
Two Trials for Witchcraft
Many objections have been raised as to the value of the evidence given by witches. It is argued that a questionary was drawn up by the inquisitors and used by all witch-hunters, hence the similarity in the accounts. Records of two trials are presented in full: Alexander Hamilton in Edinburgh, 1630 and Lillias Adie in Torryburn, 1704
A Witch-Glove from Wiltshire
The Splendour That Was Egypt
Empire and the house in postcolonial fiction
In this essay I argue that the notion of colonial "paradise" endorsed in island discourse is challenged in the works of Caribbean author Lawrence Scott (Witchbroom, 1992) and the Sri Lankan writers Romesh Gunesekera (The Sandglass, 1998) and Jean Arasanayagam ("Time the Destroyer", 1995). The "colonial house" in these postcolonial texts is a trope of management and control for the owner, but displays the paradox of paradise and prison as the wome…
The Caribbean short story
edited by Lucy Evans, Mark McWatt and Emma Smith, Leeds, Peepal Tree Press, 2011, 356 pp., £19.99, ISBN 978 1 8452 3126 2 Caribbean literature and the public sphere: from the plantation to the post
The Caribbean novel since 1945
Terror and reconciliation
Terror and reconciliation: Sri Lankan anglophone literature, 1983–2009." Journal of Postcolonial Writing, 50(1), pp. 120–121
Troubling borders
This inspiring anthology of short stories, poems, paintings and photographs uses a collage of art forms to portray varied, and usually under-represented, female identities. The focus, as the title
Pathologies of paradise
Pathologies of Paradise: Caribbean Detours, winner of the Nicolas Guillen Award for “Outstanding Book in Philosophical Literature” (2014), consists of five chapters plus an introduction and epilogu
Leave Your Emotions at Home”
This article explores how bereaved workers in white-collar jobs manage their emotional expression with coworkers in professional work spaces. During times of bereavement, employees are faced with the challenge of both maintaining a professional identity and renegotiating personal identity in relation to their loss. This challenge is rooted in separate spheres thinking that has distinguished private life, emotions, and femininity from public life,…
Communities in contemporary anglophone Caribbean short stories
Lucy Evans’s interdisciplinary study places literary studies and anthropology in dialogue, explaining that both are “influenced by the social and cultural position of the writer” (206). Her analysi
In search of Annie Drew
In search of Annie Drew: Jamaica Kincaid’s mother and muse." Journal of Postcolonial Writing, 55(1), pp. 135–136
White, Male, and Bartending in Detroit
The hipster scene in Detroit, Michigan, is explored via participant observation and in-depth interviews. Participants used hipster norms as a resource for masculinity dilemmas, including a lack of white- or blue-collar jobs and stable female partners. The analysis examines how these men successfully enacted their progressive values in some arenas (read: gender) but not in others (race relations). More specifically, their emphasis on the creative …
Pitchfork’s authenticity problem
This article turns a critical eye on the arguments deployed by Pitchfork, one of the most popular music websites, when reviewing two artists: Vampire Weekend and Lil Wayne. Rhetorically analyzing the reception of these two artists is illuminating because both had indie breakouts in 2008, both release genre-spanning music, and both have had over a decade of commercial success. However, Vampire Weekend’s whiteness enables them to benefit from authe…
Female Fashion as Leisure and Labor on Reddit
This paper examines a vibrant online community called Female Fashion Advice, which exemplifies convergence culture because its members both produce and consume its content. This large subreddit offers a compelling alternative to traditional fashion journalism and empowers women to partake in a hobby that has been denigrated due to its association with femininity. Using grounded practical theory, we found that fashion is treated as serious leisure…
Calm in the Storm
This article examines one new media source that was shared in the Academic Mothers Facebook group: Emily Oster’s parenting newsletter. Oster’s newsletter specifically focused on parental decision making during the COVID-19 pandemic. This article focuses on the messages and themes in the newsletter during the first six months of the pandemic in the United States. That time was marked by new and increased uncertainty for parents around family healt…
Sociology (12 works) · History (11 works) · Anthropology (8 works) · Gender Studies (7 works) · Art (6 works) · Caribbean history, culture, and politics (5 works) · Computer Science (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Art history (4 works) · Gender Studies (4 works)