民族文學翻譯理論興起的基礎是多樣的、復雜的,既有形式主義美學和文學語言哲學和傳統的翻譯理論,其不僅包含了美學和文學層面上的形式主義、語言哲學與傳統意義上的翻譯理論,又包含了民族學、人類學等跨領域學科研究,此外還有哲學領域的現象學、闡釋學以及現代化理念。對民族文學翻譯可借鑒的主要理論進行闡述,進一步解釋民族文學所體現的翻譯性。

The rise of ethnic literature translation theory is multiple and complex,both literary and aesthetic sense of formalism, philosophy of language and the traditional translation studies, and cross disciplines such as anthropology,ethnology, role, in addition to the philosophy of phenomenology, hermeneutics and post modern thought, such as deconstruction,the influence of post colonialism,feminism and other multi-dimensional variously.