少數民族文學研究需要在理念和方法上進行轉型更新。一是當代少數民族文學研究不能只是局限于純粹的"文學性"研究,需要加強與少數民族文學相關的政治學、民族學、社會學、歷史學等知識的聯系。二是當代少數民族文學研究可借鑒知識社會學的方法揭示出民族文學生產過程及民族文化精神產品背后復雜的社會聯系,呈現當代少數民族文學生產和消費的內部肌理與脈絡,使少數民族文學研究具有實證性和普適性。三是當代少數民族文學研究應是知識社會學意義的文學事實研究。通過對文學事實的發現和梳理,研究者才可能從對少數民族文學文本簡單模式化的批評走向文本與社會復雜關系的深層結構分析,從而真正闡述當代少數民族文學的發展脈絡及其價值所在。

The research on contemporary Chinese ethnic literature needs to be transformed and updated in terms of concept and approaches.Firstly,the study of contemporary ethnic literature should not be limited to pure literariness;instead,researchers need to strengthen the connection between ethnic literature and relevant knowledge of politics,ethnology,sociology,history and so on.Secondly,method of Sociology of knowledge can be referenced for contemporary Chinese ethnic literature studies to reveal the process of ethnic literature production,the complex social relations behind ethnic cultural products and the mechanism and context within contemporary ethnic literature production and consumption,so that the ethnic literature studies can more empirical and universal.Thirdly,contemporary ethnic literature studies should be the studies of literature fact in the sense of Sociology of knowledge.Only based the discovery and carding of literature facts can researchers move forward from simple and monotonous criticismof ethnic literature to deep-structured analysis of complex relationship between text and society,so as to expound deeply expound the development of contemporary Chinese ethnic literature and its value.