Sophie Salvo
Biographic Data
| ID | 5778870 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sophie Salvo |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sophie |
| FAMILY NAME | Salvo |
| SIGNATURE | SALVO S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Chicago |
| ORCID | 0009-0003-7484-2876 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 5 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The Political Novel in the Age of its Impotence
While scholars have increasingly studied the German right's publishing strategies and literary politics, less attention has been paid to the literary texts as such. They are worth examining in detail, I argue here, because they reflect in exaggerated form a problem that troubles political novels more generally: the dwindling role of the novel in the twenty‐first century. Focusing on novels by Hoewer, Zierke, Strauß, and Schwaerzel, the article sh…
Father is Always Uncertain
J.J. Bachofen characterizes his 1861 Das Mutterrecht as a feat of historiography. He has purged his analysis of anything that is not an “objective” depiction of the past: in other words, of anything fictional. But according to Bachofen’s own account, fiction is also what instigates history, what divides the historical from the prehistorical. Only with the advent of “father right,” and its world of invented relations, does the kind of analysis tha…
Knowing Gender in Kim de l'Horizon's Blutbuch
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 at…
The Sex of Language
The Sex of Language:Jacob Grimm on Grammatical Gender Sophie Salvo (bio) In 1831, Jacob Grimm issued a study of grammatical gender, that structure which famously made Mark Twain, some fifty years later, call German the most "slipshod and slippery" of languages (252). For Twain, classifying nouns into the categories "masculine," "feminine," and "neuter" was ridiculous; to take gender seriously led to the absurd contention that "a young lady has no…
The Ambivalent Didacticism of Jenny Erpenbeck’s Gehen, Ging, Gegangen
Jenny Erpenbeck's 2015 Gehen, ging, gegangen has largely been received as a novel meant to educate the German public about the current "refugee crisis" in Europe. This article argues that Erpenbeck's text has a more complicated relationship to its own didactic potential. By situating Gehen, ging, gegangen within the history of didactic narrative as a genre, the article demonstrates how Erpenbeck's novel borrows from typical didactic conventions, …
The Ambivalent Didacticism of Jenny Erpenbeck’s Gehen, Ging, Gegangen
Jenny Erpenbeck's 2015 Gehen, ging, gegangen has largely been received as a novel meant to educate the German public about the current "refugee crisis" in Europe. This article argues that Erpenbeck's text has a more complicated relationship to its own didactic potential. By situating Gehen, ging, gegangen within the history of didactic narrative as a genre, the article demonstrates how Erpenbeck's novel borrows from typical didactic conventions, …
The Ambivalent Didacticism of Jenny Erpenbeck’s Gehen, Ging, Gegangen
Jenny Erpenbeck's 2015 Gehen, ging, gegangen has largely been received as a novel meant to educate the German public about the current "refugee crisis" in Europe. This article argues that Erpenbeck's text has a more complicated relationship to its own didactic potential. By situating Gehen, ging, gegangen within the history of didactic narrative as a genre, the article demonstrates how Erpenbeck's novel borrows from typical didactic conventions, …
The Sex of Language
The Sex of Language:Jacob Grimm on Grammatical Gender Sophie Salvo (bio) In 1831, Jacob Grimm issued a study of grammatical gender, that structure which famously made Mark Twain, some fifty years later, call German the most "slipshod and slippery" of languages (252). For Twain, classifying nouns into the categories "masculine," "feminine," and "neuter" was ridiculous; to take gender seriously led to the absurd contention that "a young lady has no…
Father is Always Uncertain
J.J. Bachofen characterizes his 1861 Das Mutterrecht as a feat of historiography. He has purged his analysis of anything that is not an “objective” depiction of the past: in other words, of anything fictional. But according to Bachofen’s own account, fiction is also what instigates history, what divides the historical from the prehistorical. Only with the advent of “father right,” and its world of invented relations, does the kind of analysis tha…
Knowing Gender in Kim de l'Horizon's Blutbuch
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 at…
The Political Novel in the Age of its Impotence
While scholars have increasingly studied the German right's publishing strategies and literary politics, less attention has been paid to the literary texts as such. They are worth examining in detail, I argue here, because they reflect in exaggerated form a problem that troubles political novels more generally: the dwindling role of the novel in the twenty‐first century. Focusing on novels by Hoewer, Zierke, Strauß, and Schwaerzel, the article sh…
Psychology (4 works) · German History and Society (3 works) · Art (2 works) · Gender Studies (2 works) · German (2 works) · German Colonialism and Identity Studies (2 works) · German Literature and Culture Studies (2 works) · History (2 works) · Literature (2 works) · Philosophy (2 works)