九州派作品の社会的主題 : 交流のあった雑誌の性格から

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The Kyushuha is known as an avant-garde group active in Japan around 1960. Until now, research in early works of Kyushuha has suggested that certain characteristic societal themes are recognized, but how the artists developed these themes remains unclear. Analysis of works from the Kyushuha's active early period confirms that certain artists were handling societal themes at that time. Those themes were contemporary societal or local issues, especially those concerning coal miners in Kyushu. These thematic characteristics can also be glimpsed particularly in their involvement with poetry journals in Fukuoka, and the magazine Circle MURA. Thus, it is clear that the societal themes seen in the early work of the Kyushuha have some relationship to certain poetry journals in Fukuoka and Circle MURA, which showed similar interest in local issues. Considering the above, I would like to propose the following hypothesis. Instead of considering the Kyushuha's consciousness of societal problems as an isolated phenomenon that developed within the group, it is possible to think of it as a collective consciousness born from a movement that combined the Kyushuha, poetry journals, and Circle MURA. The purpose of this paper is to propose research into the Kyushuha from this perspective.