Vol 4 No 1 (2018): WritingThreeSixty

Letter from the Editor

Table of Contents

Postgraduate Conference: Of Words in Pictures by

1

Review of Postgraduate Conference

5

“Refuel your futureâ€: Asphalt Afrofuturism and the Slow Violence of Water and Oil in Nnedi Okorafor’s Lagoon by Gemma Field

7

The functionality of objects in my poetry

17

Transnational Dis-locations and Re-emplacements: Finding Home in NoViolet Bulawayo’s “We Need New Namesâ€

24

The stickiness of shame: tracing the affect of shame on the body through the medium of performance

31

Establishing the Mezzaterra on Ritual and Myth: Ahdaf Soueif’s Appropriation of the Sacred in “The Map of Loveâ€

40

Becoming-Animal: Negotiating Insider/Outsider Politics in Leah Chishugi’s A Long Way from Paradise

49

Decoding the ‘new’ culture of roadside memorialisation in South Africa

58

Mother, Father, Lover: A creative look at how relationships with influence future intimate relationships

68

Positive Representations of Asexuality in Contemporary Young Adult

77

Zoë Wicomb’s Playing in the Light : Home, Homesickness, and Race as Place

86

The WhatsApp Profile Photo: Identity Representation and Visual Rhetoric in the Digital Age

94

Between Two Kings: Rewriting Michal from a Jewish feminist perspective?

113

“Those who travel, seeâ€: A critical reflection on visibility and the teleological ambiguity of FEMRITE

128

Featured Artist: UrbanKhoi

137

Ghost Technologies

146

Interval

149

The History of Intimacy

150

Butterfly Man

152

Tribute to Prof. Michael Wessels

155

Contributors

159

Featured Artist’s biography

163

Editorial team

164

About the journal

166