时至今日,人们再也不会把民族文学的研究,只限于民族民间文学一隅了。当代少数民族文学的发展,把各民族的作家文学置于越来越重要的地位。因此,民族文学的主要研究方向,正逐渐由民间文学向着作家文学转移。这是一次历史性的重大转移。它的意义,决不只是为民族文学的研究开拓一个新的领域,而是为社会主义民族文学的发展作理论上的跟踪;为少数民族作家的创作,尽擂鼓助阵之职。 Today, people will no longer limit the study of national literature to the corner of national folk literature. The development of contemporary minority literature has placed the writers’ literature of various nationalities in an increasingly important position. Therefore, the main research direction of national literature is gradually shifting from folk literature to literary literature. This is a historic and significant shift. Its significance never only opens up a new field for the study of national literature, but also makes a theoretical follow-up for the development of socialist national literature. It endeavors to help writers of ethnic minorities.