The Customary Voiceless Mother and Dominating Daughter in Indian Women Writings

Abstract

The present paper is an attempt to discuss the marginalised voice of “the mother” figures in mainstream women writers of India like Shashi Deshpande, Kiran Desai, and Manju Kapoor belonging to different decades and has significantly projected the dimensions of the mother-daughter relationship. Though in their writings, the mothers are voiceless and marginalised by none other than their daughters. Their projection of voiceless mothers and sole-dominated daughters has become a never-ending custom in Indian literature where mothers are being muted with no perspectives. The discussion is focused on the idealisation of motherhood and voiceless mothers projected as the “bad mother” without listening to them.