How is On Freedom structured? How does Nelson speak to this structure in her introduction?

On Freedom is divided into six sections: "Introduction," "Art Song," "The Ballad of Sexual Optimism," "Drug Fugue," "Riding the Blinds," and "Afterword." This structure offers a neat and accessible approach to an impossibly expansive topic. Because questions regarding and definitions of freedom are multitude, and the conflicts they might create innumerable, Nelson avoids tracing the country's history of violence throughout the text. She uses her introduction in order to explain her reasons for approaching the topic in the aforementioned formal manner. She says that instead of assuming a purely historical or political stance, she has divided her text into four distinct realms, each of which offer an alternate means of considering notions of freedom. She believes that freedom is not a one-time event, but an ongoing and multivalent experiment. Her structure enacts...