彝族文學史的建構過程

The Process of Constructing the History of Yi's Literature

彝族，是中國少數民族裡最複雜民族，它的支系龐大複雜，彼此的語言不完全能通，並且從未整合為一個內部可以動員與互動的完整社會，但是大家却被合稱為彝族。這樣複雜的背景，「彝族」的組成令人產生好奇，他們到底是不是一個「民族」，還是由許多不同的民族組成的一個「民族群」？本文想藉由目前已經建構出來的彝族文學史、彝族文學概論做為觀察對象，探究彝族文學史的實像與虛像。

Yi is the most complicated ethnos among the ethnic minorities in China. The system of its branches is huge and complex, the members of one branch can't really understand the languages spoken by those of the other branches, and Yi has never been integrated into a complete society that can be mobilized internally and in which its members can interact with one another. However, those people are all called the Yi. With such a complicated background, the composition of ''Yi'' makes people wonder whether the Yi belong to the same ethnos or they actually are of an ethnic group made up of many different ethnos. This article tries to explore the real image and the virtual one of the history of Yi's literature by studying the history of Yi's literature and the general introduction to Yi's literature which have been constructed.