UKZN Press and Love Books invite you to the launch of Azille Coetzee’s captivating new book, Desire at the End of the White Line: Notes on the Decolonisation of White Afrikaner Femininity.
Coetzee will be in conversation with Christi Kruger.
About the book:
After the democratic transition in the 1990s, many white South African scholars, writers, artists and thinkers were hopeful that the dismantling of the apartheid regime would create an opening for the reimagining or remaking of whiteness in the country. At the heart of Desire at the End of the White Line is the question that confronts white Afrikaans-speaking people some 30 years later: why haven’t we changed more yet? Why are our lives still so white and so separate? In this book, Azille Coetzee goes in search of answers in what is perhaps the last place we want to look: the realm of the sexual, the intimate, the erotic and the familial.
Through an exploration of a broad range of contemporary Afrikaans popular culture texts, Coetzee contends that most of the big stories that the white Afrikaner tells about herself today are still about the white family line and, more often than not, its future on the land.
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