Critical Approaches to Literature: Centering Humanity: Analyzing Graphic Novels with the Unessay

Key Points

• This column explores how unessays empower students to explore graphic novels creatively and analytically.
• Inviting students to create unessays in response to graphic novels.
• Analyzing texts such as Displacement and Maus.
• Emphasizing student agency and creativity.
• Students displayed increased engagement with graphic novels.
• Unessays facilitated deeper literary and rhetorical analysis.
• Creative expression led to more personal connections with the texts.