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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 This is the entry on Tan from Encarta Online, with a biography and links. How trustworthy do you consider this source? Why? http://encarta.msn.com/encyclopedia_761579635/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 To help put Tan's work into a historical context, here is a wealth of introductory info about Chinese Immigration to the U.S. How can you relate this to from where your family came from? How can this help you in your writing about Tan? http://www.nara.gov/regional/findaids/chirip.html 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 Here's an interview from Salon, in which she discusses her novel The Hundred Secret Senses. What did you learn from this interview that other sources didn't make much mention of? http://www.salon.com/12nov1995/feature/tan.html |