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).

• Chapter 1. Introduction: Transnational Kinship, Technology and the Global Novel.- Chapter 2. Kinship Transformed: Global Technologies and the Unfettering of Family Ties.- Chapter 3. Born into a Muddle of Relationships: Hanif Kureishi’s The Buddha of Suburbia and Zadie Smith’s White Teeth.- Chapter 4. Between National Diaspora: Monica Ali’s and Jhumpa Lahiri’s Transnational Wives and Families.- Chapter 5. ‘Navigating’ the Planetary Field of Kinship and Family: Khaled Hosseini and Nadia Hashimi.- Chapter 6. Conclusion: Towards a Planetary Field of Kinship and Relation.

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).

• Chapter 1. Introduction: Transnational Kinship, Technology and the Global Novel.- Chapter 2. Kinship Transformed: Global Technologies and the Unfettering of Family Ties.- Chapter 3. Born into a Muddle of Relationships: Hanif Kureishi’s The Buddha of Suburbia and Zadie Smith’s White Teeth.- Chapter 4. Between National Diaspora: Monica Ali’s and Jhumpa Lahiri’s Transnational Wives and Families.- Chapter 5. ‘Navigating’ the Planetary Field of Kinship and Family: Khaled Hosseini and Nadia Hashimi.- Chapter 6. Conclusion: Towards a Planetary Field of Kinship and Relation.

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).

• Chapter 1. Introduction: Transnational Kinship, Technology and the Global Novel.- Chapter 2. Kinship Transformed: Global Technologies and the Unfettering of Family Ties.- Chapter 3. Born into a Muddle of Relationships: Hanif Kureishi’s The Buddha of Suburbia and Zadie Smith’s White Teeth.- Chapter 4. Between National Diaspora: Monica Ali’s and Jhumpa Lahiri’s Transnational Wives and Families.- Chapter 5. ‘Navigating’ the Planetary Field of Kinship and Family: Khaled Hosseini and Nadia Hashimi.- Chapter 6. Conclusion: Towards a Planetary Field of Kinship and Relation.