Inhabiting Survival

Reading Asian American Women Writers

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“Inhabiting Survival: Reading Asian American Women Writers” explores three works by Asian American women writers—The Ocean in the Closet by Japanese American writer Yuko Taniguchi, Comfort Woman by Korean American writer Nora Okja Keller and The Song Poet by Hmong American writer Kao Kalia Yang. Analyzing how each writer makes use of two narrators, the paper describes the teaching of these works within the Liberal Arts curriculum, particularly within the high impact practice of Global Learning. Making use of the American Association of Colleges and Universities’ “Global Learning VALUE Rubric,” with the strong emphasis it places on identity “within a global context,” the essay shows the ways in which identity formation is mutually- constitutive among characters as well as students in a multicultural classroom.