When the first Asham Award was launched in 1996 - in honour of Asham House, the house in Sussex where Virginia and Leonard Woolf lived - nearly a thousand unknown women writers took part. The first anthology of winning stories, published a year later and entitled The Catch, demonstrated not only the rich cultural mix of our society today, but the huge range of largely untapped talent in towns a…
CONTENTS Preface Articles Manneke Budiman Ethnicity and the performance of identity Dewi Anggraeni Does multicultural Indonesia include its ethnic Chinese? Thung Ju Lan Heterogeneity, politics of ethnicity, and multiculturalism what is a viable framework for Indonesia? Mina Elfira Inter-Ethnic relations in padang of west Sumatra navigating between assimilation and exclusivity …