This article discusses attempts to safeguard the Arbëresh language and literature as an exception - al case of linguistic-ethnical vitality over time. The Arbëresh, the descendants of Albanian refu - gees who settled in Southern Italy from the 15th to 18th centuries, have preserved their language an…

The politicization of ethnocultural diversity and the demands posed by minority cultures for greater public recognition of their distinctive identities, and greater freedom and opportunity to retain and develop their distinctive cultural practices challenge liberal democracies. In response to these …