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With me on today\u2019s show is Professor Elizabeth Anker, whose most recent book,\xa0Ugly Freedoms\xa0(Duke UP, 2022), works to understand how the idea of freedom, seemingly so fundamental to our understanding of the American experience, is often the very concept that allows for the brutal deprivation of the freedom of others. As she writes, \u201cugly freedom entails a dynamic in which practices of freedom produce harm, brutality, and subjugation as\xa0freedom.\u201d Today we will be discussing Professor Anker\u2019s theory of ugly freedom in the context of our unending crisis of gun violence in the United States. This show\u2019s topic feels as essential as any that I have offered thus far. I hope you will find something hopeful in our conversation.\nChris Holmes\xa0is Chair of Literatures in English and Associate Professor at Ithaca College. He writes criticism on contemporary global literatures. His book, Kazuo Ishiguro as World Literature, is under contract with Bloomsbury Publishing. He is the co-director of\xa0The New Voices Festival, a celebration of work in poetry, prose, and playwriting by up-and-coming young writers.\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices\nSupport our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/law