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Maximum Feasible Participation Loren Glass and Kate Marshall, Editors Post•45 Group, Editorial Committee Maximum Feasible Participation American Literature and the War on Poverty Stephen Schryer Stanford University Press Stanford, California Stanford University Press Stanford, California © 2018 by the Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system without the prior written permission of Stanford University Press. Printed in the United States of America on acid-free, archival-quality paper Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Names: Schryer, Stephen, author. Title: Maximum feasible participation : American literature and the War on Poverty / Stephen Schryer. Description: Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, 2018. | Series: Post*45 | Includes bibliographical references and index. Identifiers: LCCN 2017037235 (print) | LCCN 2017041865 (ebook) | ISBN 9781503606081 (ebook) | ISBN 9781503603677 (cloth: alk. paper) Subjects: LCSH: American literature—20th century—History and criticism. | American literature—Minority authors—History and criticism. | Literature and state—United States— History—20th century. | Literature and society—United States—History—20th century. | Poverty—Government policy—United States—History—20th century. Classification: LCC PS225 (ebook) | LCC PS225 .S37 2018 (print) | DDC 810.9/3556—dc23 LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2017037235 Typeset by Bruce Lundquist in 10/15 Minion Contents Acknowledgments vii Introduction: Maximum Feasible Participation 1 1 Jack Kerouac’s Delinquent Art 27 2 Black Arts and the Great Society 51 3 Legal Services and the Cockroach Revolution 79 4 Writing Urban Crisis after Moynihan 99 5 Civil Rights and the Southern Folk Aesthetic 125 6 Who Belongs in the University? 151 Conclusion: Working-Class Community Action 175 Notes 187 Bibliography 219 Index 235 This page intentionally left blank Acknowledgments Thanks are due, first and foremost, to Emily-Jane Cohen, Loren Glass, Kate Marshall, and the two readers at Stanford University Press. They believed in this project, and their critical feedback transformed it into a much better book. I also owe a massive debt to Mary Esteve. I started this book in 2008 as a postdoctoral project under her supervision at Concordia University, and she continued to read drafts after I took up a tenure-track position at the University of New Brunswick. As always, I’m indebted to Michael Szalay, who did his best to eradicate my worst critical habits when I was his student at the University of California, Irvine. The following scholars read individual chapters and/or provided especially helpful comments at conferences: Sean McCann, Andrew Hoberek, Jennifer Andrews, Eric Strand, Marci L. Carrasquillo, Michael Hames-García, Nicola Nixon, Sarah Wilson, Amy Hungerford, Anthony Reed, Abigail Cheever, Deak Nabers, J. D. Connor, Annie McClanahan, Lisa Siraganian, and John Alba Cutler. Excerpts from this project benefited from vigorous discussions at two Post•45 conferences. Thanks also to my supportive colleagues at the University of New Bruns- wick and to the graduate student research assistants who helped with this proj- ect: Kayla Geitzler, Curran Folkers, Charlie Fiset, and Brittany Lauton. This project was funded by an Insight Grant from the Social Sciences and Humani- ties Research Council of Canada and by a University Research Fund Grant from the University of New Brunswick. Early versions of sections of this book appeared in Arizona Quarterly, Mod- ern Fiction Studies, and Twentieth-Century Literature. I thank those journals for permission to include the material here. This book would not exist without my supportive family: Frans and Cath- erine Schryer, who introduced me to literature and sociology; Emily Schryer, vii viii Acknowledgments who set off on her own scholarly adventure; Joanne Minor, who does the kind of social work that I only write about; and Rowan Schryer, who put up with my distracted moments at the dinner table. This book is dedicated to them with love. It’s also dedicated to the memory of Scott Eric Kaufman, whose critical voice is sorely missed. Maximum Feasible Participation
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