Queer Compulsions: Race, Nation, and Sexuality in the Affairs of Yone Noguchi

by Amy Sueyoshi

In September 1897 Yone Noguchi (1875-1947) contemplated crafting a poem to his new love, western writer Charles Warren Stoddard. Recently arrived in California, Noguchi was in awe of the established writer and the two had struck up a passionate correspondence. Still, he viewed their relationship as doomed--not by the scandal of their same-sex affections, but their introverted dispositions and differences in background. In a poem dedicated to his...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0824834976
• ISBN13: 9780824834975
• Release Date: February 2012
• Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
• Length: 246 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.2" x 9.1"