20世纪80年代中国少数民族文学的文化寻根

20世纪80年代，在解放思想、改革开放的社会历史背景下，中国少数民族作家被压抑的族群身份认同逐渐复苏，中国少数民族文学表现出对各族群文化的自觉追溯与探寻。这一文化寻根现象最初显现为文学表述空间由政治转向文化，后在寻根文学思潮影响下寻根意识与现代意识得以强化，又由于形式主义理论的影响，少数民族作家自觉探索艺术形式的创新。20世纪80年代少数民族文学文化寻根潮流的出现和发展极大地推进了中国少数民族文学走向成熟。

Cultural Roots Searching of China＇ s Ethnic Literature in 1980s

During 1980s, with the social and historical background of emancipating the minds, reformation and open- ing, ethnic writers realized the importance of ethnic identities, and their writings embodied their searching for ethnic cultur- al consciousness, which appeared the transformation from politics to culture of their literary representation space. The root searching and modem awareness were later reinforced under the influence of searching for roots literature thoughts. The existance and the development of searching for roots trend in the literature pushed the ethnic literary to step to be more mature.