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Hush (DVD)
William Ash, Christine Bottomley, Sheila Reid, Peter Wyatt, Claire Keelan, …
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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?
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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