This document summarizes the novel "Waiting for Barbarians" by J.M. Coetzee. It discusses how the novel portrays racism and injustice in South Africa during the apartheid era, when white governments came to power in 1948 and ruled with racist laws. As a result of this institutionalized racism, black South Africans felt devastated in their native land. The novel also shows how the white authorities in South Africa discriminated against blacks through an unfair justice system designed to keep blacks as second-class citizens. It concludes by questioning whether racism and injustice can ever be fully escaped.

1. Prepared by:-
Lalji Baraiya,
Student of Department of English,
MKBU, 2019-20.
Paper no.:- 14( The African Literature)
Racism & Injustice in “ Waiting for Barbarian”

2. Novel by
J. M.
Coetzee
Greek poem by
Constantine P. Cavafy.
156 pages
Waiting for the Barbarians
Novelist,
Essayist, linguist,
translator
Nobel
Prize in
literature

3. Racism…

4. “We” - “Other”
( creates wall )
Have – Have not
( deals of Rafel)
Superior -
Inferior
In the past
raised of races
based on
black/ white
skin or big/
small eared
Authorities
Knowledge

5. Anti-apartheid
movement
Soweto uprising
Spear of the nation

6. Uncivilized
Who is Barbarians ? A Savage

7. Inferior
Violent
Sexual
Immortal
Terrible
Evil
Intelligent
Attractive
Superior
Purity
Spiritual
Good

8. This novel describes
story like portraying the
white government
which came to power in
1948 in South Africa.
In this apartheid era,
the white has taken
over the land of the
black; he has also ruled
South Africa with his
own racist laws.
As a result of
racism in
South Africa, the
black feels devastated
in their native land.

9. Joll captures and kills the
barbarians.
He treats them like
animals and merciless.
Joll interrogates and
tortures two prisoners
captured on the road, a
boy and his grandfather.
After killing the
grandfather, he
also tortures
the boy.

11. Is this not
Racism…?
Ex.
Kingkong

12. Justice…
The whites in this novel
discriminate the blacks through
the justice system.
They control the justice
system in order to put the
blacks in the lower class.
The justice system
works unfairly for the
black.

13. Conclusion
Are Indian racist or
not…?
Can we escape from
racism & injustice ?

14. • Bexel, Dr. B. "The Horror of injustices in J. M. Coetzee's
waiting for Barbarians and age of iron." Veda's Journal
of English Language and Literature ( JOELL) 5.1 (2018):
121-127.
• http://joell.in/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/121-127-
The-Horror-of-Injustices-reviewed.pdf
• contributors, Wikipedia. Waiting for the Barbarians.
17 February 2020. The Free Encyclopedia. Wikipedia.
23 Feb 2020
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waiting_for_the_Barb
arians>.
Bibliography

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