Imagining the “enemy”: adversarial roles in the fiction of Rabindranath Tagore and Saul Bellow, two Nobel Laureates

• Main Author: Quayum, Mohammad Abdul
• Format: Conference or Workshop Item
• Language: English; English; English
• Published: 2015
• Subjects: PE English; PI Oriental languages and literatures; PN Literature (General); PS American literature
• Online Access: http://irep.iium.edu.my/44601/1/Imagining_the_%E2%80%9CEnemy%E2%80%9D-Tagore-Bellow.pdf; http://irep.iium.edu.my/44601/2/symposium_-schedule-abstract-programe.pdf; http://irep.iium.edu.my/44601/3/approval-letter-Japan_conference_-Quayum.pdf; http://irep.iium.edu.my/44601/; http://human.kanagawa-u.ac.jp/kenkyu/symposium/20150613en/index.html

R.K. Narayan, a pioneer of South Asian fiction in English, once argued that the underlying objective of every Indian story is to create a “distinction between good and evil” and show that “goodness triumphs in the end… if not immediately, at least in a thousand years; if not in this world, at least...