Waiting for the Barbarians: Conrad, Kafka, Coetzee by Simona Micali

“…L’intervento si concentra su alcuni testi – Heart of Darkness di Joseph Conrad, Beim Bau der chinesischen Mauer di Franz Kafka, Waiting for the Barbarians di J.M. Coetzee – che aggirano la tentazione consolatoria e indagano il funzionamento di questo meccanismo “dall’interno”, mettendone in rilievo i significati latenti e la portata tragica.…”
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The ambivalence of colonial discourse: Waiting for the barbarians in the gaze of the other by Aničić Andrijana

“…Coetzee’s novel Waiting for the Barbarians is seen as fundamentally disrupting the binary logic that underpins colonial discourse. …”
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Deconstruction of Ethical Predicament in J. M. Coetzee’s Waiting for the Barbarians by Huang Hui

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Waiting For The Barbarians? The Invention Of The (US) Other (S) In The Literature Of Jm Coetzee by Juan Cruz Margueliche

“…We will work on the novel "Waiting for the Barbarians", where "Other and space" are stressed, to put the reader in a groundbreaking dilemma, where maybe we (the rule) are the ones who are outside the wall…”
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Mobile Fences: J.M. Coetzee’s <i>Waiting for the Barbarians</i> by Eleonora Pizzinat

“…This concept is well represented in J.M. Coetzee’s Waiting for the Barbarians, because not only this novel is setted on the border between an undefined Empire and the barbarians’ lands, but it also plays with various declinations of the idea of limit and boundary. …”
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"But that will not be my way" : locating counter-hegemonic energy in waiting for the barbarians and foe. by Tan, Serene Kok Yin.

“…This dissertation examines the texts Waiting for the Barbarians and Foe by John Maxwell Coetzee as literary platforms for the discourse of an ongoing political struggle filled with counter-hegemonic drive. …”
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South African censorship: the production & liberation of Waiting for the barbarians, by J. M Coetzee by Marilia Fatima de Oliveira, Maria Perla Araújo Morais, Andrea Martins Lameirão Mateus

“…Through documental and critical analysis, this article aims to answer one question: why Waiting for the barbarians, novel by J. M Coetzee published in 1980, was never banned? …”
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Corpografías fronterizas en Waiting for the Barbarians (1980) de J.M. Coetzee by Christian Pardo-Gamboa, Tatiana Calderón Le Joliff

“…El estudio de las corpografías (corpographèses) en Waiting for the Barbarians de J.M. Coetzee permite establecer una sintomatología del cuerpo –ligada a las experiencias de la tortura y del erotismo– que asocia la enfermedad con la somnolencia en el texto ficcional y la parasitación del texto histórico representado. …”
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A repressed desire named revolution: Social anomalies and anxieties in Coetzee’s Waiting for The Barbarians by Shahab Nadimi, Bakhtiar Sadjadi

“…M. Coetzee’s Waiting for the Barbarians (1980) in terms of Fredric Jameson’s concept of the political unconscious. …”
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The Gorgon’s Head: On Narration, Torture and Truth-Seeking in J.M. Coetzee’s Waiting for the Barbarians and in the South African TNC’s History-Writing and Restorative Undertaking by Susanna Zinato

“…The article retrospectively considers the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s main assumptions and procedures concerning truth-seeking, narration and, by implication, healing, forgiveness and reconciliation, in the problematizing light that J.M. Coetzee’s Waiting for the Barbarians (1980) can shed upon them. The narrative choices made by Coetzee to tackle in ethically acceptable ways torture and, broadly, any inhuman authoritarian violence on the powerless victim’s body are discussed by drawing on the arguments advanced in his essay “Into the Dark Chamber: The Writer and the South African State” (1986) and in the chapter “The Problem of Evil” of his novel Elizabeth Costello (2003). …”
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The impossibility of the spatial dichotomy in colonial narratives : an analysis of the representation and significance of space in E.M. Forster’s a passage to India and J.M. Coetzee’s waiting for the barbarians by Luo, Priscilla Peiyu

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De l’aporie signifiante à l’impossible à dire : Waiting for the Barbarians de J. M. Coetzee, un roman victime de son propre discours by Sophie Marret

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در انتظار بربرها «دیگری» از نوع دیگر by هاله رفیع

“…This article, by focusing on J, M. Coetzee’s Waiting for the Barbarians analyses this curious relationship between the self and the other and is part of a PhD research project carried out at Islamic Azad University, Tehran Central Campus.…”
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The white crisis : an analysis of the redemption of guilt in postcolonial Southern African literature. by Leong, Lucas Wei Ben.

“…In relating the common themes of JM Coetzee’s Disgrace, Waiting for the Barbarians and Doris Lessing’s The Grass Is Singing, we see that the manifestations of guilt in these postcolonial novels is seen as a destabilising force, and the acceptance of which ultimately leads the protagonists to exclusion from their native societies. …”
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J. M. Coetzee’s Revisited: From Apartheid to Neoliberalism by Abdullah M. Dagamseh

“…This article re-reads Coetzee’s Waiting for the Barbarians as a representation of Coetzee’s effort to inform the broader world of the actual terrors and crimes against humanity that existed in South Africa in the 1970s and early 1980s by extending the narrative into the later 20th and early 21st centuries. …”
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جسم ريزومي در مواجهه با نظام امپرياليستي؛ خوانش دلوزی رمان در انتظار بربرها اثر جی. ام. کوئتزی by سميّه كاظمي

“…Coetzee in his Waiting for the Barbarians (1980) pays much attention to the body and its functions in the imperialistic and totalitarian regimes. …”
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Razglobljeno vrijeme: vrijeme Drugoga – J. M. Coetzee: Čekajući barbare (1980) by Mario Tukerić

“…In this article we analyze the novel Waiting for the Barbarians, by the South African writer John Maxwell Coetzee. …”
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Contesting Discourses and Transmodalization in J.M.Coetzee’s Fiction by Sadia Ghaznavi

“…J.M.Coetzee’s South African-based novels, mainly Waiting for the Barbarians (1980), Life and Times of Michael K (1983) and Age of Iron (1990), manifest a metafictional consciousness that investigates the constructs of reality of the colonial subject. …”
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Experiments in postcolonial reading: music, violence, response by Venter, C

“…</p> <p>The thesis examines different aesthetic and epistemological manifestations of the postcolonial, considering at length Steve Reich’s string quartet, <em>Different Trains</em> (1988), Philip Glass's opera, <em>Waiting for the Barbarians</em> (2005), and Philip Miller’s choral work, <em>REwind: A Cantata for Voice, Tape and Testimony</em> (2006). …”