This article focuses on the autobiography On Borrowed Words. A Memoir of Language (Penguin Books, New York, 2001) by Stavans. Spanish, English, Yiddish and Hebrew are the languages present in this memoir about multiple transnational displacements. The identity of the autobiographical subject depends on language as can be observed in the multiple metalinguistic references in which the author reflects upon the linguistic tensions both thematically and affectively. Stavans uses different strategies to reflect this multilingual reality while at the same time he problematizes the dichotomy of familiar versus foreign, and home versus abroad. The complex relation between language and space leads to feelings of alienation and uprooting. The desire to belong to a place runs parallel with the desire to make ‘borrowed words’ his own. The second part of the article then focuses on the numerous intertextual references to other authors. In his struggle to find a place between all these languages, it seems literature will be his compass. In his memoir Stavans doesn’t see himself exactly as a Latino writer, but more as a Diaspora Jew, which apparently determines his search for a place of his own in literature and defines his identity as a writer.

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多语言主体的斗争及其在文学中的身份探索：伊兰·斯塔万斯的《借词——语言回忆录》

本文重点介绍自传《借词》。Stavans 的《语言回忆录》（企鹅出版社，纽约，2001 年）。西班牙语、英语、意第绪语和希伯来语是这本关于多重跨国流离失所的回忆录中出现的语言。自传主题的身份取决于语言，正如在作者在主题和情感上反思语言张力的多种元语言参考中所观察到的那样。斯塔万斯使用不同的策略来反映这种多语言现实，同时他对熟悉与外国、国内与国外的二分法进行了问题化。语言与空间的复杂关系导致疏离感和连根拔起的感觉。归属于一个地方的渴望与将“借来的话语”变成自己的渴望并行不悖。然后，文章的第二部分重点介绍了对其他作者的大量互文参考。在他努力在所有这些语言之间找到一席之地的过程中，文学似乎将成为他的指南针。在他的回忆录中，斯塔万斯并不完全将自己视为拉丁裔作家，而更像是一个散居的犹太人，这显然决定了他在文学中寻找自己的位置并定义了他作为作家的身份。