Desire at the End of the White Line: Notes on the Decolonisation of White Afrikaner Femininity (Azille Coetzee)

In my vel : 'n Reis (2019) and the novel Die teenoorgestelde is net so waar (2021).Desire at the End of the White Line: Notes on the Decolonisation of White Afrikaner Femininity (hereafter, Desire) is her first scholarly book, in which she explores aspects of Afrikaner femininity and identity.Desire looks very specifically at the sexual desires of white (mostly Afrikaans-speaking, and mostly Afrikaner) women.Coetzee situates the problem she explores as quite important to dismantling white patriarchal power:[Who] the white Afrikaans woman wants, slips into bed with, chooses as kin, was never a personal matter.It was much more complicated than preference.At stake, (then and now, I argue) is nothing less than the white line, the precious white skin; at stake is the power of the white man, and land, place.Her desire is racialised as a public feeling (5).