Christopher Metre

Biographic Data

ID1060756
NAMEChristopher Metre
GIVEN NAMESChristopher
FAMILY NAMEMetre
SIGNATUREMETRE C
AFFILIATIONSSamford University
ORCID0000-0002-0031-1947
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS10
TOTAL CITATIONS0
AUTHOR COUNT10
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1995
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2020
H-INDEX0

  • Introduction: Teaching Dante

    Open AccessChristopher MetreARTICLEReligions2020

    This introduction to the Special Issue "Teaching Dante" summarizes the volume's essays and discusses the conference at which they were initially presented

  • Teaching the Reformations-Introduction

    Open AccessChristopher MetreARTICLEReligions2017References: 10

    This introduction to the Special Issue "Teaching the Reformations" summarizes the volume's essays and discusses the conference at which they were presented

  • The Cambridge Companion to American Civil Rights Literature

    Open AccessJulie Buckner Armstrong, Zoe Trodd et al.BOOKCambridge Companion to American…2015

    The Cambridge Companion to American Civil Rights Literature brings together leading scholars to examine the significant traditions, genres, and themes of civil rights literature. While civil rights scholarship has typically focused on documentary rather than creative writing, and political rather than cultural history, this Companion addresses the gap and provides university students with a vast introduction to an impressive range of authors, inc…

  • Teaching Augustine-Introduction

    Open AccessScott Mcginni, Scott McGinnis et al.ARTICLEReligions2015

    This introduction to the Special Issue "Teaching Augustine" summarizes the volume's essays and discusses the conference at which they were initially presented

  • Making Civil Rights Harder: Literature, Memory, and the Black Freedom Struggle

    Christopher Metre, Christopher MetressARTICLEThe Southern literary journal2008

    Making Civil Rights Harder:Literature, Memory, and the Black Freedom Struggle Christopher Metress (bio) In a March 2005 essay in The Journal of American History entitled "The Long Civil Rights Movement and the Political Uses of the Past," Jacquelyn Dowd Hall notes how "[t]he civil rights movement circulates through American memory in forms and through channels that are at once powerful, dangerous, and hotly contested" (1233). For the most part, t…

  • The Lynching of Emmett Till: A Documentary Narrative

    Vincent Vinikas, Christopher Metre et al.ARTICLEThe Journal of Southern History2004

    At 2:00 A.M. on August 28, 1955, fourteen-year-old Emmett Till, visiting from Chicago, was abducted from his great-uncle's cabin in Money, Mississippi, and never seen alive again. When his battered and bloated corpse floated to the surface of the Tallahatchie River three days later and two local white men were arrested for his murder, young Till's death was primed to become the spark that set off the civil rights movement. With a collection of mo…

  • "No Justice, No Peace": The Figure of Emmett Till in African American Literature

    Christopher Metre, Christopher MetressARTICLEMELUS Multi-Ethnic Literature of…2003

    Journal Article “No Justice, No Peace”: The Figure of Emmett Till in African American Literature Get access Christopher Metress Christopher Metress Samford University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar MELUS, Volume 28, Issue 1, March 2003, Pages 87–103, https://doi.org/10.2307/3595247 Published: 01 March 2003

  • "Langston Hughes's "Mississippi-1955: A Note on Revisions and an Appeal for Reconsideration

    Christopher Metre, Christopher MetressARTICLEAfrican American Review2003

    I want the whole world to see what they did to my boy. -- Mrs. Mamie Till Bradley On September 24, 1955, an all-white Mississippi jury, after a mere sixty-seven minutes of deliberation, acquitted J. W. Milam and Roy Bryant of the murder of Emmett Till. Till, a fourteen-year-old black boy from Chicago, had been visiting for the first time his extended family in the Mississippi Delta. One afternoon, barely a week into his visit, he and several othe…

  • The Critical Response to Dashiell Hammett

    Scott Yarbrough, Scott D Yarbrough et al.ARTICLESouth Atlantic Review1996

    Series Foreword by Cameron Northouse Introduction Chronology Red Reviews (1929) From Journals of AndRE Gide by AndRE Gide (1941) From Pursuit of Crime by Dennis Porter (1981) From Shadow Man: Life of Dashiell Hammett by Richard Layman (1981) From Hammett: Life at the Edge by William F. Nolan (1983) From Radical Anger: Dashiell Hammett's Red Harvest by Christopher Bentley (1988) From Adventure, Mystery, and Romance by John G. Cawelti (1976) Forms …

  • Sing Me a Song about Ramblin' Man: Visions and Revisions of Hank Williams in Country Music

    Christopher Metre, Christopher MetressARTICLESouth Atlantic Quarterly1995

    Research Article| January 01 1995 Sing Me a Song about Ramblin’ Man: Visions and Revisions of Hank Williams in Country Music Christopher Metress Christopher Metress Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google South Atlantic Quarterly (1995) 94 (1): 7–27. https://doi.org/10.1215/00382876-94-1-7 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Christopher Metress; Sing Me a Song about …