{"product_id":"centenary-subjects-shawn-mcdaniel-9780826502292","title":"Centenary Subjects: Race, Reason, and Rupture in the Americas","description":"\u003ci\u003eCentenary Subjects\u003c\/i\u003e examines the ideological debates and didactic exercises in subject formation during the centenary era of independence (the decade of the 1910s)--the peak of \u003ci\u003earielismo\u003c\/i\u003e--and proposes a new reading of the \u003ci\u003earielista\u003c\/i\u003e archive that brings into focus the racial anxieties, epistemological and spiritual fissures, and iconoclastic agendas that structure, and at times smother, the ethos of that era. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eArielismo\u003c\/i\u003e takes its name from José Enrique Rodó's foundational essay \u003ci\u003eAriel\u003c\/i\u003e (1900), a wide-ranging gospel dedicated to Latin American youth that incited a cultural awakening under the banner of the spirit throughout the Americas at an ominous juncture--when the US co-opted the Cuban War of Independence in 1898, effectively rebranding it as the Spanish-American War. Rodó's optimistic message of transcendence as an antidote to the encroaching empire quickly became one of the most pervasive and malleable paradigms of regional empowerment, reverberating throughout a range of Latin Americanist projects in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eCentenary Subjects\u003c\/i\u003e recovers a series of important but understudied essays penned by \u003ci\u003earielista\u003c\/i\u003e writers, radicals, pedagogues, prophets, and politicians of diverse stripes in the early twentieth century, and analyzes how, under the auspices of the \u003ci\u003earielista\u003c\/i\u003e platform, young people emerged as historical subjects invested with unprecedented cultural capital, increasing political power, and an urgent mandate to break with the past and transform the sociopolitical and cultural landscape of their countries. But their respective designs harbor racial, epistemological, aesthetic, and anarchistic strains that bring into sharper relief the conflicting signals that the centenary subject had to parse with respect to race, reason, and rupture.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Shawn McDaniel\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0826502296\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780826502292\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Vanderbilt University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/15\/2021\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 292\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.96lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.66d","brand":"Shawn McDaniel","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43995358494975,"sku":"9780826502292","price":34.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_1e9689bc-9859-494f-8aba-3fdecc9413c9.jpg?v=1683335369","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/centenary-subjects-shawn-mcdaniel-9780826502292","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}