Lying or Laying in the Arms of a Barbarian

The complicated relationship between the magistrate and the barbarian girl in Coetzee's Waiting for the Barbarians is often misinterpreted as being solely allegorical due to its ambiguity and author’s ethnicity. There is a way though to avoid such misinterpretation. A language is created, used, and...

The International Journal of Literary Humanities

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