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Hush (DVD)
William Ash, Christine Bottomley, Sheila Reid, Peter Wyatt, Claire Keelan, …
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Discovery Miles 340
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British thriller. Would-be writer Zakes (William Ash) is driving
home along the rain-drenched M1 motorway with his girlfriend Beth
(Christine Bottomley) asleep in the passenger seat beside him. When
a near-accident causes him to catch a fleeting glimpse into the
back of a white lorry just in front of him, he sees to his horror
that it contains a woman tied up and covered in blood. The couple
stop at the next service station, where Zakes, tired and shaken,
carries out his job of posting flyers in the toilets. When he comes
out he is horrified to discover that Beth has gone missing. Could
she be the next victim of the owner of the white lorry?
In 1995 a second phase of excavations was undertaken by Oxford
Archaeological Unit (OAU) at Reading Business Park in advance of
development. This volume reports on the evidence they found for
occupation, dating to the Neolithic, Bronze Age and medieval
periods. The Neolithic features included an unusual segmented ring
ditch, and a number of pits and postholes. The ring ditch was
radiocarbon dated to the middle to late Neolithic, and an
interesting flint assemblage from all features on the site was
dated mainly to the later Neolithic. A field system, composed of
rectangular boundary ditches, was laid out in the area prior to the
establishment of a late Bronze Age settlement. The evidence for the
late Bronze Age settlement included five roundhouses, and a number
of post-built structures. The excavators also found numerous
deposits of burnt flint that were made in one area in the later
Bronze Age, and over time these grew into a substantial and
unusually large elongated burnt mound. The authors discuss the
origin of these deposits, together with the management of the
overall landscape in the later Bronze Age.
Using literary criticism, theory, and sociohistoric data, this book
brings into conversation black migrations with mystery novels by
African American women, novels which explore fully the psychic,
economic, and spiritual impact of mass migratory movements.
Diaspora travel has been forced and selected and has extended from
the Slave Trade through the contemporary moment, causing the black
subject to wrestle with motion, the self in motion, the community
in motion, the spirit in motion, culture in motion, and especially
the past in motion. Reviewing these major migratory patterns of
Africans to and within the United States from slavery to the
present and defining the primary tropes and traditions in African
American female mystery writing, each subsequent chapter looks
intensely at specific figurative locations that could become a
repository for reconstituted dense space in the new world.
Detectives as penned by African American women writers sound out
and deliberate over the viability of integrated institutions, the
family, Bohemianism, religion, cities, class consciousness, and
finally culture. Courses on African American literature, African
American history and culture, detective fiction, urban studies, and
women's studies would find the book instructive.
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