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In this paper J. M. Coetzee’s novel Waiting for the Barbarians is seen as   fundamentally disrupting the binary logic that underpins colonial discourse.   The binary constructs an image of the civilized, rational and good, and the   primitive, irrational and evil on the opposite sides of a fixed border. In   this novel, as well as in colonial reality, the binary dissolves into   ambivalence, overlap and often complete inversion of the two opposed   constructed identities. This paper analyses the novel Waiting for the   Barbarians identifying as the most important themes - the ambivalence and   inversion of colonial identity, which are seen as a reflex of the fear of the   indigenous other. The analysis focuses on the motifs of vision and   surveillance in the novel, and Lacan’s psychoanalytic notions of the gaze and   the scopic drive. It is observed that these concepts figure prominently in   the narrative by establishing ambivalent psychological relationships of power   between the main characters, discovering ambivalence within the characters   and the inversion of their constructed colonial identities

The ambivalence of colonial discourse: Waiting for the barbarians in the gaze of the other