Oralidad, escritura y compromiso: los inicios de los Contemporáneos (1921-1925).

Starting from an aspect that has been scarcely addressed by the specialized critics, the figure of the recipient public, it is considered pertinent to revisit the creative and cultural work of the main members of the Contemporáneos in México. In this first approach, the focus is placed on the first half of the twenties and on some specific texts by Gorostiza, Villaurrutia, Owen, Torres Bodet, in order to question and to reconsider the commonly accepted conviction about the deliberate ahistoricity that characterized the group. Consequently, their awareness of the sociocultural reality of the country is highlighted, while their work is related to the historical responsibility that the generation of artists of 1921 had to assume. Likewise, special attention is paid to an important cultural milestone that is not usually considered when studying their work and which takes places between the twenties and thirties: the transition from an oral cultural to another literate one. In line with the above, their artistic proposal of that time is linked with some of the emblematic figures of popular culture and with the process of rehabilitation of traditional singing in Mexico. The aim would consist of raising the possibility that the Contemporáneos could have tried to create a poetry of the Revolution before conceiving a revolutionary literature, already in the second half of the decade. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]