Vol. 9, Issue 2, Part B (2023)

The division and hunt of supremacy has remained dominant since the beginning of the human civilisation. However, it got strength since the beginning of post-colonial era. Post-colonialism consists of the composite culture of torture, vandalism, rape, assassination killing, brutality. In connection to same, the novel “Waiting for the Barbarians” opens the intellectual window in the same post-colonial brutality. By using fictional approach, the investigator revealed that in the novel “Waiting for the Barbarians”, Coetzee by using his master art justified that colonial powers are intentionally using torture on so-called barbarians, by justifying that torture as the tool by which they can achieve truth. Coetzee argued that torture in colonial powers was most effective mechanism for acquiring the truth. The investigator argued that the post-colonial discourses were based on the fundamental ideology that “torture creates pain and pain leads towards truth”.