@article{TEXTUAL,
      recid = {12792},
      author = {Salvo, Sophie},
      title = {Knowing Gender in Kim de l'Horizon's  <i>Blutbuch</i>},
      journal = {The German Quarterly},
      address = {2024-07-08},
      number = {TEXTUAL},
      abstract = {This article reads Kim de l'Horizon's award-winning novel  Blutbuch (2022) as a contribution to the epistemology of  gender. Amid philosophical debates about internality and  externality in the construction of gender, about the  feasibility of gender identity as a coherent concept, about  gender feels and gender as process, de l'Horizon's novel  offers something else: it shows the foolishness of  attempting an etiology of gender and the compulsion to  attempt one anyway. Instead of setting the ultimate  knowability of gender aside, the typical move of today's  gender theory, Blutbuch dwells within this impasse. In the  novel, I argue, gender appears simultaneously as an empty  signifier and an essential aspect of the self.},
      url = {http://knowledge.uchicago.edu/record/12792},
}