Poem & Novel

Waiting for Barbarians

• A poem & A novel

• Waiting and failure

• The juxtapose

• The barbarians and coexistence

• The political out look

• The satire

• The end

• Imperialism & Barbarians

• “[H]e is a barbarian, and thinks that the customs of his tribe

and island are the laws of nature.”

― George Bernard Shaw, Caesar and Cleopatra

• “There is always a city. There is always a civilization. There

is always a barbarian with a pickaxe. Sometimes you are

the city, sometimes you are the civilization, but to become

that city, that civilization, you once took a pickaxe and

destroyed what you hated, and what you hated is what you

did not understand.”

― Jeanette Winterson, The Powerbook

• It is the ‘Other’.

• It is totalling and interesting.

• Defines the self and supiriorise it.

• Specify the negative limits.

• More psychological then in reality

• Try to cover up the inferiority, or

use the denial

• Urge to rule over others’ minds

• http://www.ijhssnet.com/journals/Vol_3_No_10_Special_Issue_May_2013/12.pdf

• http://books.google.co.in/books/about/Waiting_for_the_Barbarians.html?id=GzgWAQAAIAAJ

• http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/tag/barbarians

• https://www.google.co.in/search?q=images+of+Barberians&espv=2&biw=1366&bih=643&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ei=cYbuVNWDPITluQSf_oHwBw&ved=0CB4QsAQ#tbm=isch&q=images+of+waiting+for+Barberians&imgdii=_

• http://www.jstor.org/discover/10.2307/1208441?sid=21105464494481&uid=2&uid=2134&uid=70&uid=4&uid=3738256

• http://www.jstor.org/discover/10.2307/4336813?sid=21105464494481&uid=3738256&uid=2134&uid=2&uid=4&uid=70

• Prepared by :Lajja Bhatt

• Paper: The African Literature.

• Role No : 16

• Enrolment No:PG13101003

• Sem IV

• Department of English

• Maharaja Krishnakumarsinhji Bhavnagar

University