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Kinship in the Age of Mobility and Technology

Migrant Family Mobilities in the Contemporary Global Novel

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  1. Lamia Tayeb

    1. Higher Institute of Human Sciences of Tunis, University of Tunis El Manar, Tunis, Tunisia

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  • Places the transnational family in the context of new kinship studies
  • Explores how technology affects how individuals and communities engage in relationships, both real and imagined
  • Build connections between social sciences (anthropological kinship and family studies, gender studies, migration studies, critical race theory, mobility studies) and the humanities
  • Explores the emerging planetary paradigm in twenty-first-century literature and political thought and the way it informs literary accounts of kinship and the transnational family

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Table of contents (6 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-x
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  2. Material and Representational Mobilities: Disciplinary Convergences and Epistemological Encounters

    • Lamia Tayeb
    Pages 1-31

  3. Kinship, Migrant Mobilities and Global Technologies

    • Lamia Tayeb
    Pages 33-60

  4. Postcolonial Migrant Mobilities: Hanif Kureishi’s and Zadie Smith’s Transcultural Families

    • Lamia Tayeb
    Pages 61-96

  5. Cultural and Emotional Mobilities: Monica Ali’s and Jhumpa Lahiri’s Transnational Wives and Families

    • Lamia Tayeb
    Pages 97-141

  6. Planetary Mobilities: Khaled Hosseini’s and Nadia Hashimi’s Forced Mobilities and Geographies of Trauma

    • Lamia Tayeb
    Pages 143-189

  7. Conclusion: Towards a Planetary Field of Relation and Cohabitation

    • Lamia Tayeb
    Pages 191-200

  8. Back Matter

    Pages 201-204
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About this book

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.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Higher Institute of Human Sciences of Tunis, University of Tunis El Manar, Tunis, Tunisia

    Lamia Tayeb

About the author

Lamia Tayeb is Assistant Professor of English at the Higher Institute of Human Sciences of Tunis (UTM), 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).

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Kinship in the Age of Mobility and Technology

  • Book Subtitle: Migrant Family Mobilities in the Contemporary Global Novel

  • Authors: Lamia Tayeb

  • Series Title: Palgrave Studies in Mediating Kinship, Representation, and Difference

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-69889-8

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham

  • eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-69888-1Published: 01 May 2021

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-69891-1Published: 02 May 2022

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-69889-8Published: 30 April 2021

  • Series ISSN: 2752-7352

  • Series E-ISSN: 2752-7360

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: X, 204

  • Topics: Anthropology, Migration, Literature, general

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