Amy Newman Kaplan

Cultures of United States Imperialism represents a major paradigm shift that will remap the field of American Studies. Pointing to a glaring blind spot in the basic premises of the study of American culture, leading critics and theorists in cultural studies, history, anthropology, and literature rev...

The United States has always imagined that its identity as a nation is insulated from violent interventions abroad, as if a line between domestic and foreign affairs could be neatly drawn. Yet this book argues that such a distinction, so obviously impracticable in our own global era, has been illus...

This digital document, covering the life and work of Amy Kaplan Mindell, is an entry from Contemporary Authors, a reference volume published by Thomson Gale. The length of the entry is 543 words. The page length listed above is based on a typical 300-word page. Although the exact content of each ent...

Kaplan redefines American realism as a genre more engaged with a society in flux than with one merely reflective of the status quo. She reads realistic narrative as a symbolic act of imagining and controlling the social upheavals of early modern capitalism, particularly class conflict and the develo...

"A Well-Balanced Tale" is a whimsical story about disability. Engagingly illustrated with themes of curiosity, discovery, innovation and acceptance, the story of Barnaby, a kangaroo who can't hop, focuses on difference and ability rather than fitting-in and disability.