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A review by saidtheraina
Victory Parade by Leela Corman
emotional
sad
tense
WWII, wrestling, feminism, sex, concentration camps, military, factories, New York, grotesque, struggle
Follows several women who are recruited to wrestle performatively during WWII. Gets real weird, surreal, and symbolic - toward the end especially.
I liked seeing what Corman does with color here, especially as a progression from the more limited color palette of Unterzakhn. The edition I read is also large-scale - pages that are larger than 8.5x11 which gives the reader great opportunities to swim in the vivid watercolors. I appreciate that she's building a body of work that tells parts of the midrash of early American history.
Read while watching these (excellent, but both sadly truncated) TV series:
Glow
A League of Their Own
Follows several women who are recruited to wrestle performatively during WWII. Gets real weird, surreal, and symbolic - toward the end especially.
I liked seeing what Corman does with color here, especially as a progression from the more limited color palette of Unterzakhn. The edition I read is also large-scale - pages that are larger than 8.5x11 which gives the reader great opportunities to swim in the vivid watercolors. I appreciate that she's building a body of work that tells parts of the midrash of early American history.
Read while watching these (excellent, but both sadly truncated) TV series:
Glow
A League of Their Own