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The J Girls : a Reality Show /

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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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Hurt, Rochelle (Author)
Format:	eBook Electronic
Language:	English
Imprint:	Bloomington, Indiana : Indiana University Press : Indiana Review, [2022]
Series:	Blue light books.
Subjects:	Female friendship > Fiction. Teenage girls > Fiction. Female friendship Teenage girls poetry. Fiction Poetry. Fiction.
Online Access:	Click here for full text at JSTOR

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Summary:	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. 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.
Item Description:	Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on May 11, 2022).
Physical Description:	1 online resource.
ISBN:	9780253060617 0253060613 9780253060624 0253060621
Author Notes:	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.