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

This book traces the secreted romantic affairs of Yone Noguchi, a Japanese national figure who wrote and critiqued English language poetry and remains better known in the US as the father of Asian American sculptor Isamu Noguchi. The study exposes Yones same sex affair with western writer Charles Warren Stoddard, traces his heterosexual intimacies with Leonie Gilmour and Ethel Armes.