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.
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Startling and familiar, sometimes vulgar, often hilarious, and very sure of itself, The J Girls is, without a doubt, one of the best books I'll read this year.
- Lisa Summe (Cleveland Review of Books)
Sprache
Verlagsort
Produkt-Hinweis
Maße
Höhe: 216 mm
Breite: 140 mm
Dicke: 6 mm
Gewicht
ISBN-13
978-0-253-06060-0 (9780253060600)
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Schweitzer Klassifikation
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.
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
