The Silent Echo: The Middle-Aged Female Body in Contemporary Women's Fiction (Hardcover)
The Silent Echo examines the contemporary female midlife novel and its failure to acknowledge and engage the aging female body. Examining novels by authors such as Margaret Atwood, Fay Weldon, Joan Barfoot, and Joyce Carol Oates, The Silent Echo integrates various social, psychological, and philosophical theories with those of cultural studies to analyze how and why the aging female body has become the silent echo at the core of women's fiction.
Helen Paloge is lecturer in teacher education at Sakhnin College in Sakhnin, Israel.