Abstract The Mexican Revolution (1910–1920) was a pivotal event in the formation of Mexican national identity, known as Mexicanidad . Utilizing Yuri Lotman’s theory of cultural semiotics and Jan Assmann’s theory of cultural memory, this study explores how literary texts function as mediums of remembrance and re-signification, shaping the cultural memory of the Revolution. Initially, early revolutionary novels began to mythologize the Revolution, integrating it into broader cultural narratives. In the mid-twentieth century, the Latin American Boom saw authors like Carlos Fuentes and Juan Rulfo employ modernist techniques to reconfigure revolutionary memory, blending local and global symbolic systems. Finally, in the late twentieth century, female authors such as Ángeles Mastretta and Elena Poniatowska introduced gendered perspectives, re-inscribing revolutionary memory through domestic and affective narratives. This study argues that the cultural memory of the Mexican Revolution is not static but dynamic, continually reshaped through literary expression, reflecting the ongoing negotiation of Mexicanidad within a complex semiotic and sociopolitical landscape. By analyzing these literary works through the lenses of cultural semiotics and cultural memory, this study reveals how Mexicanidad is constructed as a fluid, plural identity shaped by the tensions between memory and forgetting, trauma and idealism, tradition and modernity.
Kunfei Li (Sun,) studied this question.