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| | Im Wettstreit der Werte. Sorbische Sprache, Kultur und Identität auf dem Weg ins 21. Jahrhundert Canadian Slavonic ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05) |
 | | The title of the volume translates as "Competing for Values: Serbian Language, Culture, and Identity on the Way into the 21 st Century." The conference brought together some 50 scholars from 13 countries, i.e., Germany, Poland, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Russia, Ukraine, Bulgaria, Slovenia, the Netherlands, England, France, and Japan. |
 | | Thematically, the volume is divided into seven sections of rather unequal length: the two largest sections "Serbian Language Change" and "Cultural Diversity in Past and Present" make up just over half the book, followed by "Along the Axis of History" and "Literature and Culture" which together amount to a little over a quarter. |
 | | The two most substantial contributions are the papers in the history section: Helmut Zwahr's (Leipzig) broadly-based comparative study of recent Serbian history and Karlheinz Blaschke's (Dresden) in-depth analysis of the historical role of the Sorbs in the German-Slavic contact area in East Central Europe. |
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