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

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RACE, NATION, AND SEXUALITY IN THE AFFAIRS OF YONE NOGUCHI amy sueyoshi Queer Compulsions Queer Compulsions  Race, Nation, and Sexuality in the Affairs of Yone Noguchi Amy Sueyoshi University of Hawai‘i Press Honolulu © 2012 University of Hawai‘i Press All rights reserved Printed in the United States of America 17 16 15 14 13 12 6 5 4 3 2 1 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Sueyoshi, Amy Haruko. Queer compulsions : race, nation, and sexuality in the affairs of Yone Noguchi / Amy Sueyoshi. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978-0-8248-3497-5 (hard cover : alk. paper) 1. Noguchi, Yoné, 1875‒1947. 2. Poets, Japanese—Biography. I. Title. PL812.O3Z86 2012 895.6’142—dc23 2011034715 University of Hawai‘i Press books are printed on acid-free paper and meet the guidelines for permanence and durability of the Council on Library Resources. Designed by Publishers’ Design and Production Services, Inc. Printed by Sheridan Books, Inc. To all those who came before me and enabled a project such as this one to take shape ...