Engendering metafiction: Textuality and closure in Margaret Atwood's Alias Grace. From: American Review of Canadian Studies | Date: September 22, 2001| Author: Ingersoll, Earl G. | COPYRIGHT 2001 Association for Canadian Studies in the United States. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

In the five years since Margaret Atwood's novel Alias Grace (1996) appeared, a number of readers have been attracted to the implications of the quilting trope. Each of the novel's fifteen parts takes its name from a traditional pattern in quilt making. It becomes clear, as Margaret Rogerson has noted, that Atwood offers a linear equivalent to the spatial arrangement of blocks in a quilting pattern, and Grace herself is aware of the function of quilting as a metaphor for her own sto...

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