随着政府西部大开发政策的实施,西部在成为全国工作重点的同时,西部文学研究也逐渐从学科的边缘位置不断向中心靠近,越来越多的学者开始关注和重视西部文学的研究,其概念和范畴也在不断地研究中逐步明朗起来。在本文中,笔者试图对西部文学,特别是西部小说的内容做出概述,找出西部小说中所共同存在的特质。 With the implementation of the western development policy by the government, while western China became the focus of its work in the whole country, western literary studies gradually moved closer to the center from the edge of disciplines. More and more scholars began to pay attention to and study the western literature. The concepts and categories are also gradually clear in the study. In this paper, I try to outline the content of western literature, especially the western novels, and find out the common features in western novels.