Reconstructing the Mother-Daughter Relationship: Lydia Davis and Amy Tan

With four waves of women’s liberation movements in the twentieth century, relationship between mothers and daughters has come under increasing, frequent, intense, passionate examination. Scholars East West have examined this bond, giving it a universal appeal. Among voices that to create speech meaning are. Fouad (1964), Egyptian writer, her book Ila Ibnaty (To My Daughter) Rich’s 1976 classic feminist work, Of Women Born: Motherhood as Experience Institution. Concerning their definitions, paper discusses oppositional forms mother-daughter Amy Tan’s Two Kinds Lydia Davis’ The Mother. In both short stories, Tan, with Chinese traditions American education, Davis, whose background includes no ethnic derivations, explore breakdown communication problematic aiming at reconstructing richly influential relationship.