ABSTRACT
I have chosen to bring together two short stories that illustrate my 'border crossings'; crossings that must straddle 'race', gender, nation and territory as categories.4 I have selected these pieces of texts in as much as they both, albeit in different ways, raise the idea of criss-crossing of the Atlantic in journeys literal and psychic and in doing so raise themes of home and exile, local and global consciousness, dispossession and belonging, hybridity and mixing and question notions of 'pure' and 'authentic' identities.
