Steven G Yao

Biographic Data

ID1249593
NAMESteven G Yao
GIVEN NAMESSteven G
FAMILY NAMEYao
SIGNATUREYAO S G
AFFILIATIONSHamilton College
ORCID0000-0003-3920-7191
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS14
TOTAL CITATIONS1
WORKS AS AUTHOR14
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2003
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2024
H-INDEX1

  • The Cambridge Companion to the Poem

    Open AccessD Attridge, Steven G Yao et al.BOOKCambridge Companion to the Poem2024

    What is a poem? What ideas about the poem as such shape how readers and audiences encounter individual poems? To explore these questions, the first section of this Companion addresses key conceptual issues, from singularity and genre to the poem's historical exchanges with the song and the novel. The second section turns to issues of form, focusing on voice, rhythm, image, sound, diction, and style. The third section considers the poem's social a…

  • The motions of the oceans

    Steven G YaoARTICLEAtlantic Studies2018References: 4

    This paper identifies in Atlantic studies three fundamental “oceanic” motions and their attendant conditions of possibility that seem useful for further developing the notion of the transpacific as both a feature of and a theater for the rise of global modernity: circulation/commerce; displacement/diaspora; and expansion/empire. To demonstrate their utility, this paper shows how these dyads help bring into focus the deep transpacific currents inf…

  • The Angel Island Poems

    Open AccessSteven G Yao, Steven YaoCHAPTERNew Literary History of Modern…2017

  • Glass Slippers vs. Winged Shoes

    Open AccessSteven G Yao, Michael CoyleARTICLEModernist Cultures2017

  • Oceanic Etymologies

    Steven G YaoARTICLEVerge Studies in Global Asias2017

    This essay follows the historical itinerary of the internationalized signifier “Shanghai” as it has disseminated across time, space, and media around the terrain of the Pacific Rim. Over the last 150 years, “Shanghai” has achieved the status of a figure or trope that condenses the intuited but as yet not fully decipherable flows of transnational commerce and migration accompanying the rise of modernity. It has also served in different instances a…

  • On the Oxford Handbook of Global Modernisms; or the New WWJD

    Open AccessSteven G YaoARTICLELiterature Compass2012

    In this paper, I discuss the role of Fredric Jameson in The Oxford Handbook of Global Modernisms . In particular, I reflect briefly on the advantages and limits of Jameson’s “singular modernity” thesis as a paradigm for global for modernist studies

  • The Rising Tide of the Transpacific

    Open AccessSteven G YaoARTICLELiterature Compass2011References: 1

    Bringing together theoretical and methodological resources, as well as concerns, from Asian area studies, comparative literature, modernist studies, American ethnic studies (most especially Asian American studies), and postcolonial studies, transpacific literary and cultural studies encompasses in its general scope the different nations, peoples, and cultural traditions making up the Pacific Rim region, with a particular focus on examining the di…

  • Foreign Accents

    Steven G YaoBOOKForeign accents2010

  • Foreign accents

    Steven G YaoBOOKForeign accents2010

    This book undertakes linguistically informed analyses to examine the various transpacific signifying strategies by which different poets of Chinese descent in the United States have sought to employ or represent elements of a particular cultural tradition in their articulations of an ethnic subjectivity, including writings entirely in Chinese.

  • Chinese/American Verse in Transnational Perspective

    Steven G YaoCHAPTERForeign accents2010

    This chapter examines the classical Chinese poetry written by immigrants detained on Angel Island. Composed in almost total anonymity between 1910 and 1940 by largely uneducated Chinese commoners attempting to enter the United States, the poems carved into the walls of the Angel Island Immigration Station detention buildings have garnered attention almost exclusively for socio-historic, rather than literary or cultural, reasons. As a corrective t…

  • Pacific Rim Modernisms

    Steven G Yao, Mary Ann Gillies et al.BOOKPacific Rim Modernisms2009

    The Pacific Rim is a geographical region made up of all areas bordered by the Pacific Ocean, its span reaching countries as diverse as the Canada, Korea, China, Mexico, and Australia. Tracing vectors of appropriation, migration, and exchange, Pacific Rim Modernisms explores the complex ways that writers, artists, and intellectuals of the Pacific Rim have contributed to modernist culture, literature, and identity. Appropriately, given their wide g…

  • Sinographies

    Eric Hayot, H Saussy et al.BOOKSinographies2008

  • Toward a Prehistory of Asian American Verse

    Steven G YaoARTICLERepresentations2007Cited by: 1References: 3

    Through examining the various terms-tonal, rhetorical, thematic, and formal-by which Ezra Pound sought to present Chinese poetic culture and identity in Cathay, this essay delineates a "prehistory" of Asian American verse. For, departing from the reigning discourse of the "Yellow Peril," Cathay has come to embody the authority of the cultural dominant, thereby defining the framework of evaluation for other poetic voicings in English of "Chinese" …

  • Taxonomizing hybridity

    Steven G Yao, Steven YaoARTICLETextual Practice2003

    For some time now, "hybridity' has occupied a central role in discussions of "ethnic' or "minority' cultural production within both Asian American and postcolonial studies. However, existing approaches to " hybridity' ultimately simplify more than they reveal about the dynamic complexities exhibited throughout a variety of "minority' cultural expressions. Because they attempt to characterize the conditions of existence for Asian American and post…