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Listening Without Ownership: Voice, Ventriloquism, and Feminist Historiography in Margaret Atwood’s Alias Grace | ||
| Journal of Literature Across Borders | ||
| مقالات آماده انتشار، پذیرفته شده، انتشار آنلاین از تاریخ 26 مهر 1405 | ||
| نوع مقاله: Original Article | ||
| شناسه دیجیتال (DOI): 10.22080/jlab.2026.32957.1027 | ||
| نویسنده | ||
| Asghar Moulavinafchi* | ||
| Assistant Professor, English Language and Literature Department, Faculty of Literature and Humanities, Hakim Sabzevari University, Sabzevar, Iran | ||
| تاریخ دریافت: 20 شهریور 1405، تاریخ بازنگری: 06 مهر 1405، تاریخ پذیرش: 26 مهر 1405 | ||
| چکیده | ||
| This article examines how Margaret Atwood’s Alias Grace negotiates the distribution of authority between a woman’s testimony and the individuals and institutions that request, interpret, and preserve that testimony. Combining feminist narratology with a limited engagement with feminist archival ethics, the article develops the concept of listening without ownership as an interpretive practice that recognizes access to another person’s speech without transforming that access into a claim over the entirety of their subjectivity. Through close readings of Grace Marks’s spoken and unspoken narratives, Dr. Simon Jordan’s diagnostic frameworks, the novel’s hypnosis episode, and the symbolic and material labor of quilting, the analysis investigates the unstable relationship between voice, memory, and interpretation. It argues that Grace’s agency is neither absent nor absolute: she possesses the ability to redirect attention, manipulate expectations, and withhold certain explanations, yet she remains unable to fully control how her story is collected, interpreted, and circulated by others. The hypnosis scene intensifies this tension by separating audible expression from stable identity and responsibility, raising questions about authorship and accountability. The final quilt presents an alternative form of remembrance and self-representation, while also preserving the possibility that other women’s identities may be absorbed into Grace’s narrative design. By engaging scholarship on ventriloquism, legal storytelling, silence, and textile practices, this article connects these established discussions through the shifting ethics of listening. Its contribution is a feminist account of historical interpretation that differentiates narrative access, evidentiary credibility, and ethical responsibility without reducing uncertainty to either innocence or complete unknowability. | ||
| کلیدواژه‌ها | ||
| Alias Grace؛ Margaret Atwood؛ neo-Victorian fiction؛ feminist historiography؛ narrative voice | ||
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