Objective:

This paper proposes an analysis of the novel by Mexican writer Francisco Rojas González, La negra Angustias (1944), to locate and highlight the limits between historical and literary narrative within the framework of the Mexican Revolution.

Methodology:

For this, we start from the discussion about the genre of the Mexican Revolution's novel, at the same time as its attributions as a historical novel. Likewise, some points of convergence between history and literature are proposed based on certain narrative elements, where interdisciplinary dialogue is indisputable.

Originality:

Rojas' novel offers a different historiographical perspective of the Mexican Revolution since it emphasizes female participation in the armed movement.

Conclusions:

With this, it is argued that through certain narrative resources and in addition to an atypical literary structural proposal, this novel bursts into the historiography of the revolution, especially because it makes the participation of women in the context of war visible by giving an account of a woman who joins the revolutionary struggle by her own will.