Introduction : maximum feasible participation -- Jack Kerouac's delinquent art -- Black Arts and the Great Society -- Legal services and the cockroach revolution -- Writing urban crisis after Moynihan -- Civil rights and the Southern folk aesthetic -- Who belongs in the universi…
This book traces American writers' contributions and responses to the War on Poverty. Its title comes from the 1964 Opportunity Act, which established a network of federally funded Community Action Agencies that encouraged "maximum feasible participation" by the poor. With this …
This book traces American writers' contributions and responses to the War on Poverty. Its title comes from the 1964 Opportunity Act, which established a network of federally funded Community Action Agencies that encouraged "maximum feasible participation" by the poor. With this …
This book traces the literary legacy of the War on Poverty, showing how American writers developed an anti-formalist art that dovetailed with President Lyndon Johnson's call for more client involvement in Great Society welfare programs.