Barbarians was the term firstly used by Greeks for those people who did not know latin.

1. Poem & Novel

3. 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

4. • “[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

5. • 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

6. • 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_Barbaria
ns.html?id=GzgWAQAAIAAJ
• http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/tag/barbarians
• https://www.google.co.in/search?q=images+of+Barberians&esp
v=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=2110546449
4481&uid=2&uid=2134&uid=70&uid=4&uid=3738256
• http://www.jstor.org/discover/10.2307/4336813?sid=2110546449
4481&uid=3738256&uid=2134&uid=2&uid=4&uid=70

7. • Prepared by :Lajja Bhatt
• Paper: The African Literature.
• Role No : 16
• Enrolment No:PG13101003
• Sem IV
• Department of English
• Maharaja Krishnakumarsinhji Bhavnagar
University