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Mother Tongue (Mixing Patterns) Biographical Here's a good start page at Voices From the Gaps, where you'll find a photo, excerpts, a biography, two bibliographies, and some links. It's a great place to start your online research.http://voices.cla.umn.edu/vg/Bios/entries/tan_amy.html Here's a photo of Tan with her mother. Describe the photo in as much detail as you can. How can you relate this picture to your reading? http://www.achievement.org/autodoc/photocredit/achievers/tan0-014 Cultural Do you want to know more about Tan's personal history? Here's some info about a rock band Tan plays with. Do you know any of the other authors in the band? Which ones? Does anything here come as a surprise to you? http://www.dqydj.com/rbr.htm Did you know that Tan has contributed to films? This is a film review of The Joy Luck Club. Have you seen the movie? Have you read the book? After this review are you interested in either? http://www.suntimes.com/ebert/ebert_reviews/1993/09/878918.html Bibliographical This is the first chapter of Tan's novel about a Chinese-American woman, The Bonesetter's Daughter. There's also a link there for a New York Times review of the book. (Free registration required.) http://www.nytimes.com/books/first/t/tan-bonesetter.html Here is Tan's essay "Mother Tongue " in etext. Do you like reading electronic texts? What advantages do e-texts have over plain paper? Do you think that etexts have disadvantages compared with more traditional media? http://www.usao.edu/~facbassitycb/amytan.htm |