Taco

Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. Taco is a deep dive into the most iconic Mexican food from the perspective of a Mexico City native. In a narrative that moves from Mexico to the United States and back, Sanchez Prado discusses the definition of the taco, the question of the tortilla and the taco shell, and the existence of the taco as a modern social touchstone that has been shaped by history and geography. Challenging the idea of centrality and authenticity, Sanchez Prado shows instead that the taco is a contemporary, transcultural food that has always been subject to transformation.

About the author

Ignacio M. Sánchez Prado is Professor of Spanish and Latin American Studies at Washington University in Saint Louis, USA. He is the author of El canon y sus formas: La reinvención de Harold Bloom y sus lecturas hispanoamericanas (2002), Naciones intelectuales: Las fundaciones de la modernidad literaria mexicana 1917-1959 (2009, winner of the LASA Mexico 2010 Humanities Book Award) Intermitencias americanistas: Ensayos académico y literarios 2004-2009 (2012), Screening Neoliiberalism. Transforming Mexican Cinema 1988-2012 (2014), and Strategic Occidentalism: On Mexican Fiction, The Neoliberal Book Market and the Question of World Literature (2018). He has edited and co-edited nine books, the most recent of which are Democracia, Otredad y Melancolía. Roger Bartra ante la crítica (with Mabel Moraña, 2015) and A History of Mexican Literature (with Anna Nogar and José Ramón Ruisánchez, 2016).

Product details

• Authors: Ignacio M Sánchez Prado, Ignacio M Sanchez Prado, Ignacio M. Sánchez Prado
• Assisted by: Ian Bogost (Editor), Christopher Schaberg (Editor)
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.10.2025
• EAN: 9798765135624
• ISBN: 9798765135624
• No. of pages: 160
• Dimensions: 122 mm x 164 mm x 20 mm
• Series: Object Lessons
• Subjects: Guides > Food & drink; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Mexico, LITERARY CRITICISM / Semiotics & Theory, PHILOSOPHY / Aesthetics, TRAVEL / Food, Lodging & Transportation / Restaurants, Food & society, Philosophy: aesthetics, Material Culture, Semiotics / semiology, Cultural studies: food and society, COOKING / Regional & Cultural / Mexican