@article{697628,
      recid = {697628},
      author = {Simon, Lojo, and Simons, Anita,},
      title = {Heartland a historical drama about the internment of  German-Americans in the United States during World War II /  [electronic resource] :},
      pages = {1 online resource (xvi, 132 pages).},
      abstract = {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  historical information, is not in the slightest didactic.  It's a family story, a tale of survival and acquiescence,  of racism, of neighbor against neighbor. Not a pretty  picture. While it may be read for pleasure, Heartland also  is a useful tool for exposing students to important lessons  in history, politics, economics, sociology, psychology,  women's studies and other academic disciplines.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/697628},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6209-587-8},
}