Helen Paloge Livres

Focusing on the contemporary female midlife novel, this work critiques its neglect of the aging female body. It analyzes the writings of notable authors like Margaret Atwood and Joyce Carol Oates, integrating social, psychological, and philosophical theories alongside cultural studies. The examination reveals how the aging female experience has been marginalized in women’s fiction, positioning it as a significant yet overlooked theme within the genre.

A challenge, a mission, a hope for a better life for all in an embattled country. This was the author’s vision in The Other’s Other. The challenge turned out to be greater and different than imagined; the mission more exasperating; the hope, more complicated. The book offers a new perspective on the problematic encounter between Jewish and Arab Israelis through the experience of a Jewish lecturer at an Arab college in an Arab city in Israel. The author’s unique insights into Arab Israeli culture gleaned from conversations with staff and students, students’ work, and everyday contact offer a window on the often conflicting feelings; the ambiguities, ambivalent identities, and layers of reality; the questions, doubts and dilemmas that mark the struggle of Arabs and Jews living in one country. It is also a meditation on the rewards and difficulties of discovering and accepting the other – and oneself as the other’s other. Of coexistence.