ABSTRACT
This chapter recognizes the contribution made to writing in English by three types of writer: expatriate, diasporic and minoritarian (that is, those using English in countries where English is not one of the main languages). Expatriate writing is the cultural outcome of European control over various regions in which authors born outside Southeast Asia worked and lived for part of their lives. Diasporic writing shows insiders looking back on memories of life in a former homeland from the perspective of the distance they have put between themselves and their originary culture. Minoritarian writing shows individuals using English as part of their own bicultural identity even when the choice of language exchanges the likelihood of an audience at home for more dispersed audiences overseas.
