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Author Schryer, Stephen, author.

Title Maximum feasible participation : American literature and the war on poverty / Stephen Schryer.

Publication Info. Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, 2018.

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Description 1 online resource (viii, 245 pages).
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series Post 45
Post 45.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents 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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Subject American literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
American literature.
Chronological Term 20th century
Subject American literature -- Minority authors -- History and criticism.
American literature -- Minority authors.
Literature and state -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
Literature and state.
United States.
History.
Literature and society -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
Literature and society.
Poverty -- Government policy -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
Poverty -- Government policy.
Poverty.
Chronological Term 1900-1999
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.
Other Form: Print version: Schryer, Stephen. Maximum feasible participation. Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, 2018 9781503603677 (DLC) 2017037235
ISBN 9781503606081 (electronic book)
1503606082 (electronic book)
9781503603677