Nippon No Marano Bungaku Dulcinea Roja

[Machine Translation] Is it possible to turn the pejorative term "Marrano" around and free it from its historical usage to refer to hidden Jews, and use it in a more universal sense to refer to all situations in which a person must hide his or her true origins in order to survive in society? By daring to call zainichi Koreans and people from the discriminated Buraku tribe "Marrano," this ambitious new genre theory touches on the essence of literature by assuming the subject of a story under an impossible imaginary ego.

「マラーノ」という侮蔑的表現を裏返し、それを隠れユダヤ人を示す歴史的用法から解き放ち、より普遍的な意味で、ひとが本来の出自を社会的に隠して生き延びねばならぬ状況一般に用いることははたして可能か。在日朝鮮人、被差別部落出身者等々をあえて「マラーノ」と呼ぶことで、ありえぬ想像上の自我のもとに説話の主体を引き受けるという、文学の本質に触れる意欲的な新ジャンル論。