Document Type
Book Review
Publication Date
8-2013
Abstract
Yone Noguchi is now best known in the United States as the father of sculptor Isamu Noguchi, but he was a highly regarded author and poet who lived in the United States between 1893 and 1904 and taught English at Keio University in Tokyo after his return to Japan. In this book, Amy Sueyoshi, who teaches in race and resistance studies and in sexuality studies at San Francisco State University, carefully examines the elder Noguchi’s published writings and his correspondence with other poets and writers. Her book challenges Noguchi’s biographers, many of whom have simply assumed that he was heterosexual, and historians of Asian Americans who have refused to explore the possibility that sex among men occurred in ‘‘bachelor societies.’’ Her work also addresses historians of sexuality, most of whom have overlooked Asians in the United States who engaged in same-sex affairs.
Publication Title
Pacific Historical Review
Volume
82
Issue
3
First Page
454
Last Page
455
Required Publisher's Statement
View original published article in JSTOR.
Recommended Citation
Leonard, Kevin Allen, "Review of: Queer Compulsions: Race, Nation, and Sexuality in the Affairs of Yone Noguchi" (2013). History Faculty and Staff Publications. 12.
https://cedar.wwu.edu/history_facpubs/12
Subjects - Topical (LCSH)
Poets, Japanese--Biography
Subjects - Names (LCNAF)
Sueyoshi, Amy Haruko, 1971-. Queer compulsions; Noguchi, Yoné, 1875-1947
Geographic Coverage
Japan
Genre/Form
reviews (documents)
Type
Text
Language
English
Format
application/pdf
