Voices of Women Writers Lessons Learned from Mothers and Daughters

Parents play a crucial role in the development of children, varying from culture to culture. Although imperative, the mother and daughter relationship can be trivial. Many women writers have exercised their knowledge and shared their feelings in their works to depict the importance and influence of mothers upon daughters. Jamaica Kincaid, Maxine Hong Kingston, and Kiana Davenport are only three of the many women writers who have included mother and daughter themes in their texts. …

…Kiana. The Lipstick Tree. Women Writers coursepack. Fall 1999. http://www.crwrl.utexas.edu/~natasha/usauto_html/kingston/gender.html. Kincaid, Jamica. Girl. Women Writers coursepack. Fall 1999 Kingston, Maxine Hong. The Woman Warrior. Random House: NY, April 1976. Works Cited Davenport, Kiana. The Lipstick Tree. Women Writers coursepack. Fall 1999. http://www.crwrl.utexas.edu/~natasha/usauto_html/kingston/gender.html. Kincaid, Jamica. Girl. Women Writers coursepack. Fall 1999 Kingston, Maxine Hong. The Woman Warrior. Random House: NY, April 1976.