扎迪·史密斯的小说《签名收藏家》聚焦伦敦北部移民社区中以亚历克斯为代表的第二代移民的身份困境。血缘、种族、心理和文化等多重意义上的“流放”状态迫使亚历克斯以签名收藏家的身份为寄生之所,并试图于宗教与民族文化中弥合撕裂的身份,找回完整的自我。然而,犹太卡巴拉密教与佛教禅宗的精神之旅都没有指向分裂的世界与分裂的自我重新统一的出路。在这个种族、民族、宗教等各种边界日益模糊的今天,身份的流放状态以及渗透性和动态性本身或许正是现代性不可忽视的特征之一。 Zadith Smith’s novel The Collector of Signature focuses on the identity dilemma of the second generation of immigrants represented by Alex in northern immigrant communities in London. The “exile” status of multiple meanings, such as blood, race, psychology and culture, forced Alex to parasail as a collector of identities and sought to bridge the torn identity of religions and ethnic cultures and retrieve Complete self. However, none of the Jabal Kabulistic and Buddhist zen spiritual journey points to a way out of the divided world and divided self-reunification. At a time when ethnic, ethnic and religious boundaries are increasingly blurred, the exile status and permeability and dynamism of identity may indeed be one of the characteristics that can not be ignored in modernity.