Freedom's Ring

Literatures of Liberation from Civil Rights to the Second Wave

By: Jacqueline Foertsch

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Paperback | 16 April 2021

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Freedom's Ring begins with the question of how the American ideal of freedom, which so effectively defends a conservative agenda today, from globally exploitative free trade to anti-French "freedom fries" during the War in Iraq, once bolstered the progressive causes of Freedom Summer, the Free Speech Movement, and more militant Black Power and Women's Liberation movements with equal efficacy. Focused as it is on the faring of freedom throughout the liberation era, this book also explores attempts made by rights movements to achieve the often competitive or cross-canceling American ideal of equality-economic, professional, and otherwise. Although many struggled and died for it in the civil rights era, freedoms such as the vote, integrated bus rides, sex without consequences via the Pill, are ultimately free-costing officialdom little if anything to fully implement-while equality with respect to jobs, salaries, education, housing, and health care, will forever be the much more expensive nut to crack. Freedom's Ring regards the politics of freedom, and politics in general, as a low-cost substitute for and engrossing distraction from substantive economic problem-solving from the liberation era to the present day.

Industry Reviews

"Hard fought, hardly equitable, and deeply contested, freedom remains a core concept in modern American national identity. Jacqueline Foertsch's lively and compelling Freedom's Ring traces how it rallied postwar Americans to fight for racial equality, personal liberation, and women's rights from the 1950s to the 1970s with profound results."
-- Erika Doss * author of Memorial Mania: Public Feeling in America *
"Jacqueline Foertsch's Freedom's Ring is a smart-minded and provocative inquiry into the literary legacy of the postwar Civil Rights era, the storied epoch from the 1950s to the 1970s that remains an inspiration to an ongoing struggle. Foertsch's cultural criticism is authoritative and insightful, her voice captivating and passionate, and her subject timelier than ever." -- Thomas Doherty * author of Little Lindy Is Kidnapped: How the Media Covered the Crime of the Century *
"The English professor explores the role of 'freedom' and 'equality' in literature of major rights-seeking movements from the 1960s and 1970s." * North Texan *
"Hard fought, hardly equitable, and deeply contested, freedom remains a core concept in modern American national identity. Jacqueline Foertsch's lively and compelling Freedom's Ring traces how it rallied postwar Americans to fight for racial equality, personal liberation, and women's rights from the 1950s to the 1970s with profound results."
-- Erika Doss * author of Memorial Mania: Public Feeling in America *
"Jacqueline Foertsch's Freedom's Ring is a smart-minded and provocative inquiry into the literary legacy of the postwar Civil Rights era, the storied epoch from the 1950s to the 1970s that remains an inspiration to an ongoing struggle. Foertsch's cultural criticism is authoritative and insightful, her voice captivating and passionate, and her subject timelier than ever." -- Thomas Doherty * author of Little Lindy Is Kidnapped: How the Media Covered the Crime of the Century *
"The English professor explores the role of 'freedom' and 'equality' in literature of major rights-seeking movements from the 1960s and 1970s." * North Texan *

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