@article{1436275,
      recid = {1436275},
      author = {Tayeb, Lamia,},
      title = {Kinship in the age of mobility and technology : migrant  family mobilities in the contemporary global novel /},
      pages = {1 online resource (x, 204 pages)},
      abstract = {This volume aims to address kinship in the context of  global mobility, while studying the effects of  technological developments throughout the 20th century on  how individuals and communities engage in real or imagined  relationships. Using literary representations as a spectrum  to examine kinship practices, Lamia Tayeb explores how  transnational mobility, bi-culturalism and cosmopolitanism  honed, to some extent, the relevant authors' concerns with  the family and wider kinship relations: in these  literatures, kinship and the family lose their familiar,  taken-for-granted aspect, and yet are still conceived as  "essential" spheres of relatedness for uprooted individuals  and communities. Tayeb here studies writings by Hanif  Kureishi, Zadie Smith, Monica Ali, Jhumpa Lahiri, Khaled  Housseini and Nadia Hashimi, working to understand how  transnational kinship dynamics operate when moved beyond  the traditional notions of the blood relationship,  relationship to place and identification with community.  Lamia Tayeb is Assistant Professor of English at the Higher  Institute of Human Sciences of Tunis, Tunisia. She is the  author of The Transformation of Political Identity from  Commonwealth through Postcolonial Literature: The Cases of  Nadine Gordimer, Michael Ondaatje and David Malouf (2006)},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/1436275},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-69889-8},
}