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LLILAS invites you "Tacos are Modernity" – An event with
Ignacio Sánchez Prado
Professor of Spanish, Latin American Studies, and Film & Media Studies
Washington University in St. Louis.
Discussant, Sergio Martinez, Texas State University
This event is a collaboration with Huston-Tillotson University and that we P will be serving as a discussant?
Event location: Benson Collection 2nd floor conference room
2300 Red River St. Austin, TX
Tacos will be served!
In the everyday social discourse of Mexican food, two ideas typically take hold. First, people assess Mexican food related to its supposed “authenticity.” Also, Mexican food traditions are often evaluated in relation to their adscription to tradition and ancestrality. Against these two ideas, this talk argues that tacos are in fact modern: they involve foods that did not exist in Pre-Columbian times and that emerge and evolve parallel to the process of urbanization and modernization in Mexico. Particular attention is given to the rise of the tortilla as a mass industrial product as a condition of possibility for the ubiquity of tacos in Mexico.
Ignacio M. Sánchez Prado is the Jarvis Thurston and Mona van Duyn Professor in Humanities at Washington University in St. Louis. His areas of research include Mexican literary, film, and cultural studies; Latin American intellectual history; neoliberal culture; food cultural studies; and “world literature” theory.
He is the author of seven books, including "Naciones intelectuales. Las fundaciones de la modernidad literaria mexicana (1917-1959)" (2009, winner of the LASA Mexico 2010 Book Award), "Screening Neoliberalism: Mexican Cinema 1988-2012" (2014), "Strategic Occidentalism: On Mexican Fiction, The Neoliberal Book Market and the Question of World Literature" (2018), and "Intermitencias alfonsinas. Estudios y otros textos" (2019).
He is currently working on a study titled "Popular Cosmopolitanism, on genre and the idea of world culture as a social practice in mid-century Mexico," as well as the short book "Taco" for the Object Lessons series at Bloomsbury Press.
Free and open to the public. For more information, contact Paloma Díaz at [email protected].
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Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Benson Latin American Collection, The Center for American History, 2315 Red River St, Austin, TX 78705, United States,Austin, Texas
