The J Girls (eBook)

A Reality Show

Rochelle Hurt (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2022
92 Seiten
Indiana University Press (Verlag)
978-0-253-06062-4 (ISBN)

Infos

—Mixes genres: poetry, fiction, screenplay —Coming of age story of 5 teen girls in the Rust Belt dealing with the traumas of unstable homes, sexual assault, drugs, and closeted queerness —2021 winner of the Blue Light Books Prize from Indiana Review

Winner of the 2021 Blue Light Books Prize, Rochelle Hurt's The J Girls: A Reality Show is a tribute to the grit and glitter of millennial girlhood, a testament to its dangers and traumas, and an elegy for adolescent friendships.

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Jocelyn, Jodie, Jennifer, Jacqui, Joelle. Ignoring the optimistic advice of elders, these five working-class teens in the Rust Belt band together in their embrace of bad behavior and poor taste as they navigate sexuality and identity with loud-mouthed joy and clear-eyed cynicism.
 
Winner of the 2021 Blue Light Books Prize, Rochelle Hurt's The J Girls: A Reality Show is a tribute to the grit and glitter of millennial girlhood and a testament to its dangers and traumas. Hurt's creative, genre-bending mix of poetry, fiction, and screenplay brings the girls to life with campy performances of monologues, soap opera clips, mock interviews, talk shows, commercials, and even burlesque. Vulgar, rhapsodic language serves as costume and shield, allowing the J Girls to script their own images and project glowing, outsized versions of themselves into the safe space of the TV screen. 

Playful and poignant, The J Girls is a flashy ode to performance and a nostalgic elegy for adolescent friendships.

Autor

Rochelle Hurt is a poet and essayist. Her other books include In Which I Play the Runaway, which won the Barrow Street Book Prize, and The Rusted City: A Novel in Poems. Her work has been included in Poetry magazine and the Best New Poets anthology series, and she's been awarded prizes and fellowships from Poetry International, Arts & Letters, Vermont Studio Center, Jentel, and Yaddo. Originally from Youngstown, Ohio, she now lives in Orlando and teaches in the MFA program at the University of Central Florida.

Inhalt

Preface
Cast List
Opening Credits: Adoration of the J Girls

Episode 1: The J Girls Get High
Less is More
Jen's Prayer for Effacement
Wifebeaters
Middling
Thigh High
Ode on My Upspeak

Commercial Break: Bath & Body Works Pastoral

Episode 2: The J Girls Chase Tail
To My '81 Chevy Celebrity
Weeknight
Jen's Prayer for Containment
Ode to the C Word
The Birth of Anger at the Roller Skating Rink
Origins & Outcomes
The Cut Felt Round the World

Commercial Break: Lip Smacker Fantasia

Episode 3: The J Girls Give Face
Pluralizing
Mall Haunts
Glitter Ode
Demolition Derby Queens
Dangling Modifier
Ponytail Politic
Cunts in Girls' Room
oo yay & eye yay

Commercial Break: Wet n Wild Romance

Episode 4: The J Girls Get Caught (on Camera)
Documentary
What the Thief Learned to Take Early
Jen's Prayer for Exposure
Viral
Ode to an Empty Womb
Mimi
Double Negative

Commercial Break: Avon Grotesque

Episode 5: The J Girls Reunion
Y2K Confessions

Episode 6: The J Girls Cash Out
Selfward
Silence is Golden—
Circular Argument
I Could Eat You Up
Who Taught You That One?
Can I Call You Ellie?
McDonald's 4-ever
Possessives

End Credits: Beatitudes for Meek Girls

Acknowledgments

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 29.3.2022
• Reihe/Serie: Blue Light Books
• Verlagsort: Bloomington
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 140 x 140 mm
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Lyrik / Dramatik ► Lyrik / Gedichte
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Romane / Erzählungen
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Film / TV
• Schlagworte: Adolescent • award-winning • campy • Coming of Age • feminist • Fiction • girlhood • LGBTQ • Midwest • Millennials • monologue • Nostalgia • Performance • Poetry • Queer • Reality TV • Rust Belt • screenplay • Script • Teens • Theater • Trauma • VHS • Working Class • young women
• ISBN-10: 0-253-06062-1 / 0253060621
• ISBN-13: 978-0-253-06062-4 / 9780253060624