Abstract: The fundamental value of the national literature is embedded in the pursuit of its subjectivity, and in the post-modern cultural context, national literary language is one essential approach to understand of the subjectivity pursuit in national literatures. In terms of the complex relationship between Mandarin Chinese language and minority languages, the efforts of minority writers should be noted for their using Mandarin Chinese to strengthen their consciousness of nationality and search for the ways and meanings of cultural exchanges with the world of Chinese language. By writing in Chinese, minority writers attempt to reconstruct their national literature, to gain discourse power, and eventually to formulate an influential minority literary language. Writing in Chinese helps minority writers to embody their national and cultural identity in literary texts, which inevitably promotes Chinese minority literature and enriches Chinese contemporary multi-ethnic literature.

Key words: national literature, Southwest border area minorities, literary subjectivity, mode of discourse