| 書目名稱 | Heartland | | 副標(biāo)題 | A Historical Drama a | | 編輯 | Lojo Simon,Anita Simons | | 視頻video | http://file.papertrans.cn/425/424970/424970.mp4 | | 概述 | An award-winning play, HEARTLAND educates students about a dark chapter in American history through an accessible yet compelling family story of American farm life during World War II. | | 叢書名稱 | Social Fictions Series | | 圖書封面 |  | | 描述 | .During World War II, the US government confined thousands of Japanese-, German- and Italian-Americans to isolated, fenced and guarded relocation centers known as internment camps. At the same time, it shipped foreign Prisoners of War captured overseas to the US for imprisonment. .Heartland reflects on the intersection between these two historic events through the story of a German-born widow and her family who take in two German Prisoners of War to work their family farm. But the German-American family and the POWs bond too well for the townspeople to accept, and the widow is arrested, interned and eventually suffers a breakdown, which tears her family apart. .Based on true stories, Heartland? illustrates what can happen when fear and prejudice pit neighbor against neighbor in times of war. A dramatic tale that grants insights into American history, Heartland is a winner of the Dayton Playhouse FutureFest and a runner-up for the Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival David Mark Cohen National Playwriting Award. .“The story is shocking; for me it was revelatory,” wrote theatre critic Pat Launer. “Deporting our own citizens? Who knew? But the play, while conveying historic | | 出版日期 | Book 2014 | | 關(guān)鍵詞 | POW; World War II; history; internment; prejudice | | 版次 | 1 | | doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6209-587-8 | | isbn_ebook | 978-94-6209-587-8 | | copyright | SensePublishers-Rotterdam, The Netherlands 2014 |
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