This thesis attempts to demonstrate the potential of a 'cross-cultural'
perspective in understanding migrant/exilic writing. The differences between the
novels of Antigone Kefala and Yasmine Gooneratne can be used to illustrate
alternative possibilities in a Centre/Margin approach to migrant and exilic writing
inherent in multiculturalism and postmodernism. While Kefala conservatively
wishes to privilege the margin, Gooneratne dissolves its boundary in search of a
cross-cultural imagination.