DESIRE AT THE END OF THE WHITE LINE, notes on the decolonisation of white Afrikaner femininity

298pp., paperback, University of KwaZulu-Natal Press, Pietermaritzburg, 2025

ISBN: 9781869145712

Azille Coetzee examines a range of contemporary Afrikaans popular culture texts to demonstrate how the stories that white Afrikaans women tell about themselves keep them white and apart.

"In this book I ask: what would happen if she were to go against the path laid out for her, if she were to want something else? What openings emerge for the unmaking or becoming different of Afrikaner whiteness if we as white women could start narrating ourselves outside of the love plot of heterosexual nuclearity, white genealogy? What new lines of connection, points of contact and ways of being unfurl if we change our story and become willing to reimagine the social structures and networks of intimacy within which we become who we are?" from the introduction

Azille Coetzee is a postdoctoral researcher at Stellenbosch University. She is the author of the non-fiction titles In my vel: ’n reis (2019) and the novel, Die teenoorgestelde is net so waar (2021).