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Queer Compulsions: Race, Nation, and Sexuality in the Affairs of Yone Noguchi
A Book Talk & Discussion with Author Amy Sueyoshi.
6 PM | Welcome Remarks
6:05 PM | Presentation by Amy Sueyoshi
6:45 PM | Discussion and Q&A
7:25 PM | Book Signing
About the book
At the turn of the century, Japanese immigrant poet Yone Noguchi — father of renowned Asian American sculptor Isamu Noguchi — wrote love letters to author Charles Warren Stoddard, impregnated editor Leonie Gilmour, and proposed marriage to journalist Ethel Armes. Queer Compulsions unveils Noguchi’s multiple interracial and same-sex affairs to assert that Asian Americans found romantic fulfillment even within reportedly anti-Japanese and heteronormative California. Sueyoshi underscores how Asians and Pacific Islanders played a critical role in articulations of attraction and affection within America’s supposedly all-white bohemian community.
About the author
Amy Sueyoshi is Provost at San Francisco State University. She holds degrees in history from Barnard College and UCLA. Her research lies at the intersection of Asian American Studies and Sexuality Studies. She is also a founding co-curator of the GLBT History Museum and the co-founder of the biennial Queer History Conference.
The program includes a short talk presented by Amy Sueyoshi, author of Queer Compulsions and provost at San Francisco State University, followed by a discussion and book signing. Pre-Order your book now rom the Cha May Ching Museum Boutique.
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