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Cafe Indiana: A Guide to Indianaas Down-Home Cafes
Contributor(s): Stuttgen, Joanne Raetz (Author)
ISBN: 0299224945     ISBN-13: 9780299224943
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
OUR PRICE:   $18.95  
Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats
Published: July 2007
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Annotation: "Cafe Indiana" is both a guide to Indiana’ s hometown mom-and-pop restaurants and a reclamation and celebration of small-town Midwest culture. The hungry diner looking for adventure and authenticity can use "Cafe Indiana" simply as a guide to the state’ s quintessential eats: the best fiddlers, macaroni and cheese, soup beans, and beef Manhattan. But Stuttgen also captures the spirit of the locals, bringing to life the people whose stories give the book— and the food— its soul.
        Over plates of chicken and noodles, fried bologna sandwiches, and sugar cream pie, folks are crafting community at the Main Street eatery. In "Cafe Indiana," Hoosiers and out-of-staters alike are invited to pull out a chair and sit a spell.
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BISAC Categories:
- Business & Economics | Industries - Hospitality, Travel & Tourism
- Travel | United States - Midwest - East North Central (il, In, Mi, Oh, Wi)
- Social Science | Folklore & Mythology
Dewey: 647.957
LCCN: 2007011948
Physical Information: 0.68" H x 6.2" W x 8.96" (0.93 lbs) 312 pages
Themes:
- Cultural Region - Midwest
 
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What happens to the writing of dance history when issues of sexuality and sexual identity are made central? What happens to queer theory, and to other theoretical constructs of gender and sexuality, when a dancing body takes center stage? Dancing Desires asks these questions, exploring the relationship between dancing bodies and sexual identity on the concert stage, in nightclubs, in film, in the courts, and on the streets. From Nijinsky's balletic prowess to Charlie Chaplin's lightfooted "Little Tramp," from lesbian go-go dancers to the swans of Swan Lake, from the postmodern works of Bill T. Jones to the dangers of same-sex social dancing at Disneyland and the ecstatic Mardi Gras dance parties of Sydney, Australia, this book tracks the intersections of dance and human sexuality in the twentieth century as the definition of each has shifted and expanded.
The contributors come from a number of fields (literature, history, theater, dance, film studies, legal studies, critical race studies) and employ methodologies ranging from textual analysis and film theory to ethnography. By embracing dance, and bodily movement more generally, as a crucial focus for investigation, together they initiate a new agenda for tracking the historical kinesthetics of sexuality.