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sylvilel's review
reflective
I honestly have no idea how to rate this, because I think there’s definitely people who could benefit from reading it, but me it gave nothing.
It talks about personal and collective trauma in a very general passing-by kind of style, like «this is something we need to keep in mind»; but it doesn’t go any deeper into the subject, and I didn’t really learn anything from reading it.
It talks about personal and collective trauma in a very general passing-by kind of style, like «this is something we need to keep in mind»; but it doesn’t go any deeper into the subject, and I didn’t really learn anything from reading it.
ardystvs's review
3.0
The essay was beautifully written but the last part could've been better. The discussion on the pandemic, Trump, and the collective trauma experienced by America is a very lazy analysis added in order for the narrative to arrive at its conclusion. Also, the title of the essay is deceiving. Gay's work didn't attempt to teach readers how to write about trauma or how to study trauma in literature. Instead, she focused on her experience in teaching students how to explore this difficult subject in their writing. Writing into the Wound almost feels like an advertisement created to encourage its readers to enroll in Gay's future workshops or subscribe to her newsletter, The Audacity.
noel_rene_cisneros's review
4.0
Ensayo sobre la importancia de escribir sobre el trauma, en el cual Gay hace hincapié en que no es un proceso sencillo, ni fácil para no volver al trauma un espectáculo y ser comprensivo con quien lo padeció para lograr sanar.
yasmeexn's review
4.0
“There is no pleasure to be had in writing about trauma. It requires opening a wound, looking into the bloody gape of it, and cleaning it out, one word at a time. Only then might it be possible for that wound to heal.”