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

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hala Ewaidat
Keyword(s):  
Amy Tan ◽  
Mother Daughter Relationship

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

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 324-335
Author(s):  
Hala Ewaidat
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Short Stories ◽  
American Education ◽  
Amy Tan ◽  
Mothers And Daughters ◽  
Mother Daughter Relationship ◽  
East And West ◽  
Liberation Movements ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Feminist Work

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

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

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hala Ewaidat
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Short Stories ◽  
American Education ◽  
Amy Tan ◽  
Mothers And Daughters ◽  
Mother Daughter Relationship ◽  
East And West ◽  
Liberation Movements ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Feminist Work

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

scholarly journals Interpretation of the Mother-Daughter Relationship in the Joy Luck Club from the Perspective of Transitivity System

2019 ◽  
pp. 97-102
Author(s):  
Yuanyuan Liu ◽  
Lingling Liu
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
The United States ◽  
Amy Tan ◽  
Functional Grammar ◽  
Chinese Origin ◽  
Mother Daughter Relationship ◽  
Shed Light ◽  
Corresponding Analysis

The Joy Luck Club written by Amy Tan depicts the lifestyle of foreign citizens of Chinese origin. It consists of many stories in which children born in the United States but educated in a Chinese way are destined to have some conflicts with their Chinese born parents due to different environments they were born in. This thesis, based on functional grammar put forward by Halliday, endeavors to focus on the analysis of the mother-daughter interaction in one of the four families—Jing-mei Woo’s family from the perspective of transitivity system so as to shed light on the personalities of these characters. After carrying out the corresponding analysis, a conclusion can be made that the daughter is a person with her own mind and she pursues freedom and independence all her life, while her mother is a person attaching great importance to the obedience from her daughter.

Rereading Klein’s “Some reflections on ‘The Oresteia’ ”—the evolution of the mother–daughter relationship in four generations of Chinese women

2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 50-59
Author(s):  
Xu Jianqin
Keyword(s):  
Mutual Influence ◽  
Chinese Women ◽  
Chinese History ◽  
Developmental Context ◽  
Child Relationship ◽  
Mother Daughter Relationship ◽  
Foot Binding ◽  
Mother Child Relationship ◽  
Reform And Opening Up ◽  
Opening Up

This article analyses the evolution of the mother–daughter relationship in China, and describes the mothering characteristics of four generations of women, which in sequence includes “foot-binding mothers”, “mothers after liberation”, “mothers after reform and opening up”, and “mothers who were only daughters”. Referring to Klein’s ideas about the mother–child relationship, especially those in her paper “Some reflections on ‘The Oresteia’ ”, the author tries to understand mothers and their impact on their daughters in these various periods of Chinese history, so as to explore the mutual influence of the mother–daughter relationship in particular, and the Chinese cultural and developmental context in general.

Biculturalité et mémoire collective : Amy Tan et Maxine H. Kingston

1997 ◽  
Vol 22 (1) ◽  
pp. 191-203
Author(s):  
Salwa Nacouzi-Bourdichon
Keyword(s):  
Amy Tan ◽  
Memoire Collective

Cultural Displacement and The Quest for Identity in the works of Amy Tan and Teju Cole

IARJSET ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (9) ◽  
Author(s):  
Mrs.S.Jayanthi M.A,(Eng) M.A.(JMC) M.Phil (Ph.D)
Keyword(s):  
Amy Tan ◽  
Cultural Displacement

scholarly journals Crossing Borders in Search of the Mother-Daughter Story: Interdependence across Time and Distance

2008 ◽  
Vol 89 (4) ◽  
pp. 631-639
Author(s):  
Ruth Ann Belknap
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Data Collection ◽  
Narrative Analysis ◽  
The United States ◽  
Mothers And Daughters ◽  
Analysis Techniques ◽  
Mexican Culture ◽  
Mother Daughter Relationship ◽  
Field Notes ◽  
Distance Data

Although studies have identified the importance of the mother–daughter relationship and of familism in Mexican culture, there is little in the literature about the mother–daughter experience after daughters have migrated to the United States. This study explores relationships between three daughters in America and their mothers in Mexico, and describes ways in which interdependence between mothers and daughters can be maintained when they are separated by borders and distance. Data collection included prolonged engagement with participants, field notes, and tape-recorded interviews. Narrative analysis techniques were used. Findings suggest mother–daughter interdependence remains. Some aspects may change, but the mother–daughter connection continues to influence lives and provide emotional and, to a lesser extent, material support in their lives.

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