The Holocaust Memorial: A Play About Hiroshima

by Walter A. Davis


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Book Details

Language : English
Publication Date : 22/11/2000

Format : Softcover
Dimensions : 5x8
Page Count : 216
ISBN : 9781587216060

About the Book

The Holocaust Memorial opens in a shopping mall where General Paul Tibbets, the man who dropped the Bomb on Hiroshima, is kidnapped by an angry historian bent on "setting the record straight." As the play unfolds, we watch the psyches of both protagonists unravel as they relive the events leading up to August 6, 1945 and as the spectre of the Japanese survivors, the hibakusha, rises up before them.


About the Author

Walter A. Davis, Professor of English at the Ohio State University, is the author of several scholarly books and has long worked as an actor in regional theatre. This, his first play, was produced at Ohio State in 1998. The play’s companion piece Deracination: Historicity, Hiroshima, and The Tragic Imperative (Albany: SUNY P, 2001), a philosophic meditation on the issues here dramatized, will appear in the winter.

"A Gargantuan work on the moral imagination."
-Lonnie Carter, Playwright, author of The Gulliver Trilogy

"An engrossing work that reflects extensive research and profound reflection."
-Paul Boyer, Historian, author of By The Bomb’s Early Light