I Am Telling This to No One But You: Private Voice, Passing, and the Private Sphere in Margaret Atwood's Alias Grace

Authors

  • Stephanie Lovelady University of Maryland

Abstract

Margaret Atwood's Alias Grace brims with references to the act of narration. Private and public narration intersect in Grace's tale, which cannot be said to be truly private or public, but which moves along a continuum between these two poles. In three realms, narrative transmission, her perception of her ethnic identity, and her adoption of gender roles, there is a movement away from the public toward the private. The mixture of public and private voice in Grace's narration is not merely a curiosity, but demonstrates Grace's unfulfilled needs for privacy and intimacy.

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Published

1999-06-01

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Lovelady, S. (1999). I Am Telling This to No One But You: Private Voice, Passing, and the Private Sphere in Margaret Atwood’s Alias Grace. Studies in Canadian Literature, 24(2). Retrieved from https://journals.lib.unb.ca/index.php/SCL/article/view/14240

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Volume 24, Number 2 (1999)

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