1. Topic : waiting For Barbarian
Paper no : 14 ( African literature )
Name : Gohil Hetalba
Roll no : 08
M.A. – ii Sem – IV
Submitted to : Dr. Dilip Barad
Dept. Of English
in Bhavnagar
from Gujarat.
Year : 2013 – 2014

2.  John Maxwell
Coetzee was born in
Cape town in South
Africa in 1940.
 His first work of fiction
was Dusklands written
in 1974.The second
one is Waiting for
Barbarian in 1980.

4.  The condition is related with present
time.
 The magistrate – voice of empire
 The magistrate – sexual ecantricities

6.  Dominated
 imposed their ideology

7.  The old man says....
“ They ( barbarians ) were
coming to see the doctor ”

8.  Hysteria – Barbarian
 Women and other living under the
afraid
 Observation of Magistrate...
“ Show me a barbarian army and I
will believe”
“ Fresh stars new chaplers,
clean pages ”

9.  Contact - Slave girl Star
 Sympathy for her
 Returns her to the barbarian
 The Magistrate as an allegorical
character
“ I want to say that no one deserves to
die,
I want to say.............. Live no matter
what! ”

10.  Allegorical interpretation
 Coetzee’s view
 Compare with India’s situation