Minority "seventeen-year" novels of initiation load a significant mission of educating minority people. Focusing on describing the mental growth of minorities, these novels complete the transformation from primitive "ethnic consciousness" into "modern consciousness(consciousness on revolution,class and nation-formed countries). Opting Chinese novels of initiation demonstrates minority writer's adjustment to the mainstream ideology in literary creation. In the respect of the growth of children,intellectuals as well as people in the bottom class of ethnic groups, though the contents and ways of narration differ variously, internally resemble the high correspondences between their works and their political ideology. Besides, compared with mainstream initiative novels of Han nationality, more emphasis are put on leading characters' "national conscious" creating in minority "seventeen-year" novels of initiation beside their becoming conscious of class. Rediscovering the value of minority "seventeen-year" novels of initiation is on benefit to modifying our recognition to "seventeen-year" literature of minorities and even the entire "seventeen-year" literature. |