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 university? -- Conclusion : working-class community action.
Summary
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.
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