Cultural Issues: Race
Child Terms
- Aryan
- Aunt as term for black woman
- Behaving "black"
- Behaving "white"
- Black body
- Black family working for white
- Black foresight
- Black incarceration
- Black property ownership
- Black stereotype
- Chickasaw
- Clothes
- Colored people as acceptable terminology
- Colorism
- Disenfranchisement
- Division
- Economic basis of racism
- Equal rights
- Etiquette
- Friendly interaction
- Genealogy
- Hierarchical
- Imaginary Negro men
- Indistinguishable
- Inequalities
- Integration
- Inverting a stereotype
- Jewish
- Ku Klux Klan
- Law
- Loyal blacks
- Masquerade
- Miscegenation
- Mixed race
- Naming
- Native American
- Negro reporting white behavior
- Negro-lover
- Passing
- Playing to racial expectations / stereotypes
- Race as a form of behavior
- Racial consciousness
- Racial identity
- Racial resentment
- Racial spheres
- Racist child
- Riots
- Rules / norms for addressing whites
- Segregated space
- Segregation
- Self emancipation
- Self-abnegation
- Shadow of Negro
- Solidarity
- Stereotype black women's sexual promiscuity
- Stereotype cannibalism
- Stereotype eyes
- Stereotype lower intelligence
- Stereotype mule
- Stereotype Superstitious
- Stereotype sweat
- Stereotype: smell
- Stereotype: teeth
- Subservient / Obsequious to whites
- Subverting a stereotype
- Uncle as term for black man
- Uncle Tom
- Uppitiness
- Using a Negro as messenger
- White fear
- White race
- White savior
- White supremacists
Sibling Terms
- Age
- Agriculture
- Alcohol
- Class
- Clothes
- Crime
- Cultural Identity
- Economy
- Education
- Entertainment
- Ethnicity
- Food
- Gender
- Global
- Government
- Group Mentality
- Health and Illness
- History
- Hunting and Fishing
- Identity, Cultural
- Identity, Personal
- Labor
- Land-Use
- Law
- Mass Media
- Materialism
- Migration
- Modernity
- Nationality
- Politics
- Prejudice
- Progress
- Region
- Religion
- Ritual
- Segregation
- Sexuality
- Slavery
- Supernatural
- Technology
- Violence
- War
Tagged Events
Environment: Place›Indian mound
Cultural Issues: Alcohol›Bootlegging | Cultural Identity›Country vs city | History›Civil War | Race›Native American
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Deracination | Absence/Loss›Vanishing Indian | Naming›Renaming | Supernatural›Folklore | Supernatural›Place
Aesthetics: Allusion, Historical›Sherman, William Tecumseh
Actions: Interaction, Private›Coercion
Cultural Issues: Labor›Menial | Race›Inequalities
Relationships: Interracial›White-black
Cultural Issues: Age›Coming of age | Age›Maturing | Race›Mixed race | Race›Racial identity
Actions: Bodily›Smoking | Verbal›Conversation
Cultural Issues: Ethnicity›Native American | Race›Racial consciousness | Race›Racial identity | Slavery›Ownership | Slavery›Slave trading
Themes and Motifs: Memory›Remembering passim | Naming›Change over time | Naming›Indian name
Aesthetics: Description›Character portrait | Diction›Racist term
Actions: Interaction, Social›Mixed-race gathering
Cultural Issues: Race›Mixed race | Race›Native American
Themes and Motifs: Naming›Importance of naming | Naming›Indian name
Environment: Place›Wilderness-civilized boundary
Actions: Perceptual›Watching | Physical›Searching
Cultural Issues: Clothes›And race | Race›Native American
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Vanishing Indian
Environment: Domestic Space›Plantation house | Domestic Space›Veranda | Time of Day›Night
Actions: Emotional›Anger | Interaction, Private›Conversation | Verbal›Conversation
Cultural Issues: Alcohol›Bootlegging | Law›Sheriff | Mass Media›Telephone | Race›Etiquette | Race›Masquerade
Relationships: Commercial›Employer-employee | Commercial›Landlord-tenant | Familial›Cousin-cousin | Hierarchical›Elder-younger | Interracial›Etiquette | Social›Paternalism
Actions: Emotional›Exasperation | Verbal›Conversation
Cultural Issues: Alcohol›Whiskey | Mass Media›Telephone | Race›Masquerade
Aesthetics: Allusion, Geographical›Senegambia | Diction›Racist term | Intertextuality›Shakespeare | Style›Character portrait
Actions: Emotional›Outrage | Verbal›Discussion
Cultural Issues: Law›Evidence | Law›Legal issue | Law›Spousal privilege | Law›Witness | Race›Masquerade
Relationships: Familial›Conflict | Marital›Spousal privilege
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Simile
Environment: Domestic Space›Gate
Actions: Emotional›Anger | Verbal›Questioning
Cultural Issues: Alcohol›Bootlegging | Alcohol›Whiskey | Clothes›Sunday clothes | Race›Masquerade
Relationships: Familial›Conflict | Familial›Cousin-cousin | Intergenerational›Conflict | Interracial›Conflict | Interracial›White-black
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Sunday clothes | Law›Wedding license | Race›Masquerade
Relationships: Familial›Conflict | Familial›Cousin-cousin | Intergenerational›Conflict | Interracial›Conflict | Social›Paternalism
Aesthetics: Intertextuality›Embedded text, cursive
Environment: Domestic Space›Porch | Place›Cottonfield | Time of Day›Morning
Cultural Issues: Law›Spousal privilege | Race›Etiquette
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Horses | Money›Dowry | Objects›Wagon | Objects›Well | Recurring Tropes›Fire on the hearth
Relationships: Commercial›Landlord-tenant | Familial›Conflict | Familial›Cousin-cousin | Familial›Father-daughter | Intergenerational›Conflict | Interracial›Conflict | Marital›Conflict | Marital›Husband-wife
Aesthetics: Diction›African American vernacular dialect
Cultural Issues: Class›Class consciousness | Clothes›Women | Government›Generational reform | Race›Hierarchical
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Water | Genre Conventions›Gothic
Environment: Domestic Space›Gender stereotype | Olfactory›Decay
Cultural Issues: Class›Class consciousness | Gender›Men vs women | Government›Generational reform | Race›Hierarchical
Relationships: Familial›Father-daughter | Intergenerational›Conflict | Romantic
Aesthetics: Genre Conventions›Gothic
Cultural Issues: Class›Class consciousness | Gender›Body | Law›Regulation | Race›Hierarchical
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Rat | Appearance›Complexion | Objects›Poison
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Eyes | Figures of Speech›Flag
Cultural Issues: Race›Hierarchical
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Return
Environment: Domestic Space›Home
Actions: Perceptual›Seeing | Perceptual›Surveillance
Cultural Issues: Gender | Group Mentality›Community collective | Race›Hierarchical
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Door | Recurring Tropes›Gossip
Relationships: Familial›Father-daughter
Cultural Issues: Race›Stereotype eyes
Environment: Time of Year›Spring
Cultural Issues: Education›Informal | Race›Stereotype lower intelligence
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Over time | Arrivals/Departures›Return home
Aesthetics: Allusion, Geographical›Tennessee
Environment: Place›Smokehouse | Place›Well|Wellhouse | Time of Year›Summer
Actions: Physical›Ambush | Play›Historical recreation | Work›Getting water
Cultural Issues: Race›Stereotype eyes | Slavery›Resistance | Slavery›White anxiety
Themes and Motifs: Time›Running out
Relationships: Familial›Husband-wife | Familial›Uncle-nephew | Friendship›Childhood friends | Hierarchical›Master-slave | Interracial›Companions
Environment: Place›Smokehouse | Time of Day›Afternoon | Weather›Sunshine
Actions: Movement›Following | Perceptual›Surveillance
Cultural Issues: Race›Behaving "white" | Slavery›Loyalty | Slavery›White anxiety
Actions: Domestic›Discipline
Themes and Motifs: Character›Naivety | Recurring Tropes›Sleeping in same bed | Texts›Bible
Aesthetics: Diction›African American vernacular dialect
Cultural Issues: History›Archaeology | Race›Native American
Environment: Atmospheric›Meteor shower | Natural›Woods | Place›Jefferson
Actions: Economic›Selling land | Economic›Trading
Cultural Issues: Class›Aristocratic posing | Class›Birthright | Class›French nobility | Cultural Identity›American | Land-Use›Loss of wilderness | Race›Chickasaw | Race›Native American | War›Refugee
Themes and Motifs: Exile›Dispossession | Inheritance›Property | Naming›Indian name | Naming›Renaming | Recurring Tropes›Belatedness | Recurring Tropes›Year the stars fell | Texts›Translation
Relationships: Familial›Foster family | Interracial›Indian-white
Cultural Issues: Economy›Oil business | History›Indian Removal | Land-Use›Collective exploitation | Race›Chickasaw | Race›Native American
Aesthetics: Allusion, Geographical›Oklahoma | Language›Fragments | Recurring Episodes›Indian removal
Environment: Place›Indian agency | Place›Okatoba | Place›Old Jefferson
Cultural Issues: Entertainment›Horse race | Government›US Bureau of Indian Affairs | Race›Chickasaw | Race›Native American
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Horses | Arrivals/Departures›Arrival in Yoknapatawpha | Arrivals/Departures›Relocation | Naming›Importance of naming | Objects›Pistol
Relationships: Familial›Father-son
Environment: Place›Plantation | Place›Sawmill
Cultural Issues: Cultural Identity›Savagism | History›Indian Removal | Race›Miscegenation | Slavery›Indian slave-owners | Slavery›Ownership | Technology›Steam locomotive
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Vanishing Indian | Chaos/Order›Wildness | Character›Persistence | Exile›Indian Removal | Past›Past in present | Time›Future
Relationships: Interracial›Indian-white
Environment: Olfactory›Smelling black
Actions: Perceptual›Blurring
Cultural Issues: Race›Segregated space | Race›Stereotype: smell
Themes and Motifs: Art›Photograph | Meaning›Interpretation
Cultural Issues: Race›Race as a form of behavior
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Endurance
Cultural Issues: Gender›Femininity | Race›Stereotype sweat
Relationships: Hierarchical›Employer-employee
Aesthetics: Diction›Racist term | Figures of Speech›Negation
Actions: Economic›Impounding | Verbal›Threat
Environment: Domestic Space›Plantation house
Actions: Emotional›Anger | Emotional›Despair | Emotional›Fear | Emotional›Hope | Emotional›Peace | Movement›Walking | Physical›Cooking
Themes and Motifs: Objects›Honeysuckle | Recurring Tropes›Door
Relationships: Hierarchical›Employer-employee | Hierarchical›Landlord-tenant | Interracial›Conflict | Interracial›White-black
Cultural Issues: Race›Ku Klux Klan
Cultural Issues: Race›Ku Klux Klan
Themes and Motifs: Character›Ambitious | Recurring Tropes›Gossip
Cultural Issues: History›Negro troops | Identity, Cultural›Southern stereotype | Race›Subverting a stereotype | War›Military awards | War›World War II
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Return from war
Relationships: Interracial›Military
Cultural Issues: History›Civil Rights legislation | Politics›Exploitative | Politics›Political ambition | Race›Negro-lover | Race›Segregation | Region›The South
Cultural Issues: Health and Illness›Amputation | Politics›Campaigning | Race›Negro-lover | Region›The South
Themes and Motifs: Character›Persistence
Cultural Issues: Class›Snopesism | Race›Ku Klux Klan
Themes and Motifs: Character›Scoundrel | Story-telling›Explaining
Cultural Issues: Economy›And racism | Race›Economic basis of racism | Race›Subverting a stereotype | Race›White fear
Aesthetics: Interpretation›Explanatory passage
Cultural Issues: Clothes | Crime›Theft|Robbery | Gender›Clothing | Race›Hierarchical
Relationships: Hierarchical›Employer-employee
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Eyes | Figures of Speech›Water
Cultural Issues: Crime›Theft|Robbery | Economy›Property | Race›Black property ownership | Race›Hierarchical
Relationships: Hierarchical›Employer-employee | Interracial›White-black | Marital›Husband-wife
Cultural Issues: Crime›Theft|Robbery | Government›Audit | Politics›City government | Race›Hierarchical
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Eyes
Cultural Issues: Crime›Theft|Robbery | Politics›City government | Race›Hierarchical
Relationships: Hierarchical›Employer-employee | Interracial›White-black
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Eyes
Cultural Issues: Race›Hierarchical
Relationships: Hierarchical›Employer-employee
Aesthetics: Narrative›Commentary
Actions: Moral›Deception | Verbal›Complaining
Cultural Issues: Crime›Theft|Robbery | Gender›Marriage | Race›Hierarchical
Cultural Issues: Race›Hierarchical
Relationships: Hierarchical›Employer-employee
Cultural Issues: Law›Evidence | Race›Hierarchical
Themes and Motifs: Objects›Razor | Psychological›Manipulation
Environment: Atmospheric›Moonlit | Time of Day›Night
Cultural Issues: Race›Stereotype mule
Aesthetics: Diction›African American vernacular dialect | Narrative›First-person
Actions: Verbal›Conversation | Verbal›Talking
Cultural Issues: Race›Black stereotype
Aesthetics: Narrative›Commentary
Cultural Issues: Crime›Theft|Robbery | Race›Hierarchical
Relationships: Hierarchical›Employer-employee
Environment: Time of Day›Dawn
Cultural Issues: Race›Black stereotype
Relationships: Friendship | Hierarchical›Employer-employee
Environment: Public›Airfield | Time of Year›January
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Cap | Clothes›Coat | Clothes›Dirty | Clothes›Suit | Entertainment›Barnstorming | Race›Jewish | War›World War I
Cultural Issues: Crime›Fraud | Entertainment›Barnstorming | Race›Jewish
Environment: Time of Year›August | Time of Year›January
Cultural Issues: Age›Premature aging | Alcohol›Abstinence | Entertainment›Barnstorming | Health and Illness›Smoking habit | Race›Jewish
Themes and Motifs: Psychological›Trauma
Aesthetics: Narrative›First-person passim throughout section
Environment: Time of Year›January
Cultural Issues: Entertainment›Barnstorming | Race›Jewish
Themes and Motifs: Money›As motive | Money›Stingy with money
Relationships: Economical›Partnership
Aesthetics: Diction›Rural vernacular | Language›Aaahhhhhhh | Narrative›Parentheses
Actions: Emotional›Restlessness | Perceptual›Misreading
Cultural Issues: Race›Shadow of Negro
Cultural Issues: Race›Racial spheres
Relationships: Familial›Extended family
Cultural Issues: History›Great Migration | Race›Segregation | Region›North
Cultural Issues: Race›Miscegenation
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Italics
Environment: Atmospheric›Heat | Time of Day›Night
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Simile | Language›Ellipsis
Environment: Domestic Space›Closet
Cultural Issues: Race›Passing | Race›Racial identity
Themes and Motifs: Appearance›Racialized
Relationships: Interracial›Prospective
Environment: Domestic Space›Bedroom
Actions: Communication›And deafness | Emotional›Anger | Emotional›Defiance | Interaction, Private›Domineering
Cultural Issues: Prejudice›Racism | Race›Segregation
Cultural Issues: Law›Missing person | Race›White savior
Themes and Motifs: Supernatural›Insight
Relationships: Familial›Grandparent-grandchild
Aesthetics: Narrative›Quotation as thought
Actions: Interaction, Social›Concealment | Moral›Lying
Cultural Issues: Crime›Murder | Crime›Numbers | Gender›Traits | Law›Execution | Mass Media›Newspaper | Race›Division | Ritual›Funeral arrangements
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Departure | Arrivals/Departures›Return home | Death›Coffin | Death›Corpse | Determinism›Genetic | Inheritance›Traits | Money›Expenses
Relationships: Intergenerational›Grandparent-grandchild
Aesthetics: Diction›Racist term | Narrative›Quotation as thought
Cultural Issues: Group Mentality›Political solidarity | Group Mentality›Racial solidarity | Mass Media›Advertising | Mass Media›Newspaper | Progress›Trains | Race›Segregation | Ritual›Funeral arrangements
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Return home | Death›Corpse | Death›Funeral | Home›Homecoming | Money›Expenses | Objects›Flowers | Recurring Tropes›"Wait"
Relationships: Intergenerational›Grandparent-grandchild
Aesthetics: Diction›Racist term | Typography/Orthography›Square brackets
Actions: Economic›Selling | Verbal›Disagreeing
Cultural Issues: Race›Subverting a stereotype
Relationships: Commercial›Business partners
Aesthetics: Description›Character portrait
Cultural Issues: Race›Inequalities
Relationships: Commercial›Landlord-tenant
Cultural Issues: Crime›Theft|Robbery | Race›Behaving "black" | Race›Race as a form of behavior
Cultural Issues: Labor›Racialized | Law›Bill of sale | Materialism›Machinery or mechanical references | Race›Black property ownership
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Chasing a person
Aesthetics: Diction›Ethnic slur
Actions: Economic›Scamming | Physical›Digging | Physical›Discovering | Verbal›Negotiation
Cultural Issues: Law›Bill of sale | Materialism›Machinery or mechanical references | Race›Black property ownership | Race›Stereotype lower intelligence
Themes and Motifs: Money›Silver dollar | Objects›Coin | Psychological›Manipulation
Actions: Verbal›Announcing
Cultural Issues: Race›Black stereotype
Actions: Hunting›Fox hunting | Perceptual›Watching
Cultural Issues: Class›Aristocratic posing | Class›Class consciousness | Race›Hierarchical
Environment: Place›Memphis | Time of Year›December | Time of Year›Winter | Weather›Cold
Cultural Issues: Age›Premature aging | Age›Youth | Alcohol›Whiskey | Race›Chickasaw | Race›Mixed race
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›People compared to animals | Figures of Speech›Simile
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Trying to say
Relationships: Institutional›Jailer-prisoner
Cultural Issues: Government›Corruption | Law›Pardon | Race›Native American
Aesthetics: Description›Character portrait | Diction›Rural vernacular
Environment: Domestic Space›Dining room | Domestic Space›Gate | Domestic Space›Upstairs
Cultural Issues: Class›Class consciousness | Prejudice›Socio-economic | Race›Stereotype eyes
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Alarm
Aesthetics: Diction›African American vernacular dialect
Environment: Domestic Space›Dining room | Domestic Space›Upstairs | Time of Day›Dinner
Cultural Issues: Race
Environment: Domestic Space›Gallery | Domestic Space›Parlor | Time of Day›Afternoon
Actions: Mental›Speculation
Cultural Issues: Alcohol›Moonshine | Gender›Marriage | Race›Racial identity | Race›Segregated space | Ritual›Cemetery decorations
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Absence as loss | Absence/Loss›Of loved one | Death›Funeral | Meaning›Profound | Supernatural›Ghost
Relationships: Familial›Aunt-nephew | Familial›Husband-wife | Social›Coworker
Aesthetics: Recurring Episodes›Mannie's death
Environment: Domestic Space›Kitchen
Cultural Issues: Race›Black stereotype
Themes and Motifs: Story-telling›Audience response
Relationships: Marital›Conflict | Marital›Husband-wife
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Dehumanizing | Narrative›Summary | Recurring Episodes›Rider in jail
Cultural Issues: Group Mentality›Community collective | Race›Black stereotype
Themes and Motifs: Story-telling›Retelling
Aesthetics: Narrative›Perspective | Narrative›Summary | Recurring Episodes›Recurring event, intratextual
Cultural Issues: Race›Hierarchical
Themes and Motifs: Past›Repetition
Environment: Place›Yoknapatawpha Beat
Aesthetics: Allusion, Geographical›Jackson, Tennessee
Cultural Issues: Race›Black stereotype
Relationships: Marital›Death of spouse
Aesthetics: Narrative›Perspective | Recurring Episodes›Recurring event, intratextual
Actions: Emotional›Crying | Emotional›Grief | Emotional›Laughing | Mental›Thinking | Violent›Fighting | Work›Law enforcement
Cultural Issues: Law›Chain gang | Law›Incarceration | Race›Black stereotype | Race›Stereotype eyes
Themes and Motifs: Character›Superhuman strength
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Dehumanizing | Genre Conventions›Minstrelsy
Environment: Time of Day›Pre-dawn | Weather›Perfect Weather
Actions: Emotional›Exultation | Movement›Horse
Cultural Issues: Race›Inequalities
Environment: Atmospheric›Dust | Time of Day›Dawn
Cultural Issues: Race›Subverting a stereotype
Environment: Atmospheric›Dust
Cultural Issues: Race›Solidarity | Slavery›Biblical analogy | Slavery›Self-emancipation
Aesthetics: Allusion, Biblical›Jordan | Intertextuality›Faulkner text
Cultural Issues: Race›Stereotype Superstitious | Region›Hapless Yankees | Slavery›Self-emancipation | War›Displacement
Themes and Motifs: Chaos/Order›Disorder
Relationships: Social›Paternalism
Environment: Atmospheric›Dust
Cultural Issues: Gender›Lady's accoutrements | Race›Stereotype eyes | Race›Stereotype: smell | Slavery›Self-emancipation
Themes and Motifs: Chaos/Order›Disorder
Cultural Issues: Race›Subverting a stereotype | Slavery›Re-enslavement
Relationships: Hierarchical›Master-slave
Environment: Atmospheric›Stillness | Time of Day›Noon
Cultural Issues: Food›Cannibalism | Global›Exoticism | Labor›Menial | Race›Stereotype cannibalism | Slavery›Indian slave-owners | Slavery›Ownership | Slavery›Quarters | Slavery›Slave trading
Environment: Atmospheric›Dark | Auditory›Silence
Actions: Emotional›Fear | Verbal›Withholding
Cultural Issues: Group Mentality | Race›Stereotype: smell
Themes and Motifs: Body›Eyes | Recurring Tropes›Door
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›People compared to animals
Environment: Atmospheric›Dark
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Shoes | Prejudice | Race›Stereotype eyes | Race›Stereotype sweat | Race›Stereotype: smell
Relationships: Hierarchical›Leader
Cultural Issues: Food›Cannibalism | Government›Inherited position | Labor›Menial | Race›Stereotype cannibalism | Race›Stereotype sweat | Slavery›Indian slave-owners | Slavery›Slave trading
Themes and Motifs: Death
Relationships: Hierarchical
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›People compared to animals
Actions: Agricultural | Perceptual›Voyeurism
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Underclothes, female | Race
Actions: Communication›Messenger | Emotional›Fear
Cultural Issues: Health and Illness›Injured | Race›Stereotype: smell
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Negation
Environment: Domestic Space›Dining room | Domestic Space›Kitchen | Natural›Orchard | Time of Day›Supper
Cultural Issues: Race›Stereotype eyes | Slavery›Domestic labor | Slavery›Segregation of space | Slavery›White anxiety
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Mules | Recurring Tropes›Precognition / Something to happen
Relationships: Familial›Grandparent-grandchild | Hierarchical›Elder-younger | Hierarchical›Master-slave
Aesthetics: Allusion, Geographical›Memphis, Tennessee
Cultural Issues: Race›Black stereotype | War›Destruction
Cultural Issues: Race›Self-abnegation | Slavery›Loyalty
Aesthetics: Diction›African American vernacular dialect | Diction›Racist term | Language›Profanity
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Shawl | Race›Hierarchical | Region›Lost Cause
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Horses | Arrivals/Departures›Departure | Objects›Parasol | Objects›Surrey
Relationships: Intergenerational›Female
Cultural Issues: Politics›Voting | Race›Hierarchical | Region›Reconstruction | Slavery›Abolition | Slavery›Self-emancipation
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures
Cultural Issues: Gender›Men vs women | Politics›Election | Politics›Voting | Race | Region›Reconstruction
Relationships: Intergenerational›Female
Environment: Atmospheric›Chaos
Relationships: Institutional›Military
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Beaver hat | Clothes›Veil | Law›Legal issue | Politics›Election | Politics›Voting | Race
Relationships: Hierarchical›Leader
Aesthetics: Recurring Episodes›Negro voting
Actions: Perceptual›Hearing
Cultural Issues: Race›Black stereotype
Relationships: Hierarchical›Master-servant
Cultural Issues: Race›Negro reporting white behavior
Cultural Issues: Race›Black stereotype
Relationships: Interracial›Master-servant
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›People compared to animals
Cultural Issues: Government›Inheritance | Law›Probate | Race›Using a Negro as messenger
Actions: Moral›Grave-digging or -violating
Cultural Issues: Race›Negro reporting white behavior
Environment: Public›Road | Time of Day›Morning
Relationships: Commercial›Employer-employee
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Metaphor | Narrative›First-person passim
Environment: Domestic Space›Cabin | Domestic Space›Kitchen | Time of Day›Monday morning | Time of Day›Morning
Actions: Work›Washing clothes
Themes and Motifs: Memory
Relationships: Commercial›Employer-employee
Cultural Issues: Gender | Race | Religion | Sexuality›Prostitution
Aesthetics: Diction›African American vernacular dialect
Cultural Issues: Health and Illness›Addiction | Race | Violence›Interracial
Relationships: Institutional›Jailer-prisoner
Aesthetics: Recurring Episodes›Nancy confronts white man
Environment: Atmospheric›Cold | Domestic Space›Kitchen
Cultural Issues: Race›Self-abnegation
Relationships: Hierarchical›Employer-employee
Aesthetics: Diction›African American vernacular dialect
Environment: Atmospheric›Dark
Cultural Issues: Race›White savior
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Abandonment | Arrivals/Departures›Desertion-family
Environment: Atmospheric›Dark | Place›Lane
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Desertion-family
Relationships: Familial›Parents-children | Familial›Sibling | Hierarchical›Employer-employee | Marital›Husband-wife | Sexual›Adultery
Aesthetics: Diction›African American vernacular dialect
Actions: Physical›Protection
Cultural Issues: Race
Relationships: Familial›Parents-children | Hierarchical›Employer-employee
Environment: Atmospheric›Cold | Atmospheric›Dark | Auditory›Haunting | Domestic Space›Bedroom
Cultural Issues: Race›Self-abnegation
Aesthetics: Diction›African American vernacular dialect
Environment: Domestic Space›Kitchen
Cultural Issues: Race›Racist child | Violence›Domestic
Relationships: Friendship | Marital›Husband-wife
Aesthetics: Diction›African American vernacular dialect
Environment: Auditory›Haunting | Domestic Space›Kitchen
Cultural Issues: Gender›Women | Race›Racist child
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Desertion-family
Relationships: Familial›Parents-children | Marital›Husband-wife
Aesthetics: Diction›African American vernacular dialect
Environment: Atmospheric›Heat | Olfactory | Place›Cabin
Cultural Issues: Race›Stereotype: smell
Relationships: Hierarchical›Child as authority
Environment: Atmospheric›Dread | Domestic Space›Cabin | Time of Day›Night
Cultural Issues: Race
Relationships: Familial›Sibling | Hierarchical›Child as authority
Aesthetics: Diction›African American vernacular dialect
Cultural Issues: Labor›Domestic | Race›Racist child | Race›Self-abnegation
Relationships: Familial›Parents-children | Familial›Sibling | Hierarchical›Employer-employee
Environment: Auditory›Dog barking
Actions: Bodily›Eating supper | Bodily›Insomnia | Domestic›Cleaning | Mental›Realization
Cultural Issues: Crime›Murder | Identity, Cultural›Heritage | Prejudice›White supremacy | Race›Economic basis of racism | Race›Racial spheres
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Dogs | Animals›Horses | Home›Homecoming | Objects›Corpse | Objects›Shotgun | Recurring Tropes›Nothingness | Supernatural›Superstitions
Aesthetics: Recurring Episodes›Houston murdered
Actions: Bodily›Smelling | Domestic›Food preparation
Cultural Issues: Health and Illness›Doctoring | Law›Chain gang | Law›Incarceration | Prejudice›Racism | Race›Black incarceration | Race›Stereotype eyes | Race›Subverting a stereotype | Race›White fear
Relationships: Institutional›Jailer-prisoner
Cultural Issues: Hunting and Fishing›Ritual | Race›Chickasaw | Race›Native American | Ritual›Initiation | Slavery›Miscegenation
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Vanishing Indian | Animals›Deer | Animals›Dogs | Animals›Horses | Story-telling
Relationships: Intergenerational›Hunting party
Actions: Violent›Animal abuse | Violent›Murder
Cultural Issues: Government›Abdication | Government›Inherited position | Government›Usurpation | Race›Chickasaw
Relationships: Familial›Cousin | Hierarchical›Leader
Aesthetics: Recurring Episodes›Doom becomes chief
Actions: Work›Blacksmith | Work›Carpenter
Cultural Issues: Class›Blood | Race›Chickasaw | Race›Hierarchical | Slavery›Metaphorical | Slavery›Persistence over time | Slavery›Quarters
Relationships: Hierarchical | Interracial›Indian-white
Environment: Time of Day›Pre-dawn | Time of Year›Spring
Actions: Hunting›Turkey hunting | Verbal›Listen
Cultural Issues: Race›Chickasaw | Race›Mixed race
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Vanishing Indian | Animals›Turkey | Past›Old days | Story-telling
Relationships: Ancestral
Actions: Verbal›Questioning
Cultural Issues: Race›Mixed race | Race›Native American
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Departure
Relationships: Familial›Father-son
Actions: Economic›Scamming | Military›Reconnaissance
Cultural Issues: Race›Subverting a stereotype | Slavery›Re-arrangements during War
Relationships: Hierarchical›Master-slave
Aesthetics: Allusion, Geographical›Oxford, Mississippi
Environment: Atmospheric›Unfamiliar place
Cultural Issues: Race›Subverting a stereotype | Slavery›Etiquette | Slavery›Re-arrangements during War
Themes and Motifs: Home›Homesickness_Longing for home
Environment: Atmospheric›Stillness
Themes and Motifs: Time›Permanence
Cultural Issues: Race›Miscegenation
Relationships: Familial›Father-daughter | Interracial›Siblings
Aesthetics: Narrative›Parentheses
Cultural Issues: Age›Old age | Race›Black family working for white | War›World War I
Themes and Motifs: Inheritance›Traits | Recurring Tropes›Endurance
Environment: Time of Day›Afternoon
Actions: Movement›Walking | Perceptual›Watching
Cultural Issues: Race›Etiquette | Race›Miscegenation
Environment: Auditory›Nature | Domestic Space›Garden | Olfactory›Flowers | Time of Year›June
Cultural Issues: Gender›Southern woman | Race›Etiquette
Aesthetics: Description›Character portrait | Narrative›Parentheses
Actions: Domestic›Food preparation | Emotional›Anger
Cultural Issues: Food›Race | Race›Race as a form of behavior
Aesthetics: Diction›Racist term | Narrative›Parentheses
Actions: Interaction, Social›Gossip
Cultural Issues: Race›Black family working for white
Relationships: Interracial›Domestic | Interracial›White-black
Cultural Issues: Race›Black family working for white
Themes and Motifs: Death›Anticipation of death | Recurring Tropes›Shadows | Recurring Tropes›Threshold | Recurring Tropes›Twilight
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Death / Dead imagery | Figures of Speech›Simile
Environment: Public›Street | Time of Day›Daytime
Actions: Emotional›Indignation | Verbal›Threat
Cultural Issues: Economy›Commerce | Group Mentality›Community collective | Race›Stereotype lower intelligence
Relationships: Commercial›Customer relations | Hierarchical›Master-servant
Cultural Issues: Alcohol›Drunkenness | Health and Illness›Patent medicine | Race›Segregation
Aesthetics: Diction›Racist term
Relationships: Hierarchical›Master-servant
Aesthetics: Diction›Racist term
Themes and Motifs: Objects›Handkerchief
Relationships: Hierarchical›Master-servant
Aesthetics: Diction›African American vernacular dialect
Environment: Time of Day›Night | Time of Year›Christmas, figuratively
Actions: Emotional›Excitement | Mental›Planning
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Aviation clothes | Clothes›Cap | Clothes›Collar | Clothes›Goggles | Clothes›Shirt | Entertainment›Barnstorming | Race›Black foresight | Region›The West
Relationships: Hierarchical›Master-servant
Aesthetics: Allusion, Geographical›California | Description›Eyes
Actions: Violent›Kidnapping
Cultural Issues: Age›Youth | Race›Black foresight | Race›Racial consciousness
Themes and Motifs: Death
Relationships: Hierarchical›Child as authority | Hierarchical›Master-servant | Interracial›Child-adult
Aesthetics: Narrative›Anticipation | Narrative›Self-Reflective
Environment: Place›Field | Time of Day›Morning
Actions: Emotional›Excitement | Emotional›Fear | Movement›Flight | Perceptual›Watching | Physical›Restraining
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Aviation clothes | Race›Indistinguishable
Relationships: Hierarchical›Master-servant | Hierarchical›Teacher-student | Interracial›Child-adult
Environment: Time of Day›Morning
Actions: Communication›Gossip | Verbal›Accusatory
Cultural Issues: Age›Adolescence | Race›Racial consciousness
Relationships: Familial›Father-son | Interracial›White-black | Social›Adversarial
Aesthetics: Narrative›Commentary
Environment: Time of Day›Night
Actions: Emotional›Anger | Emotional›Comforting | Verbal›Accusatory | Verbal›Arguing | Verbal›Disagreeing | Verbal›Insulting | Verbal›Self-justifying | Verbal›Swearing
Cultural Issues: Gender›Masculinity | Race›Black foresight | Race›Racial consciousness
Themes and Motifs: Meaning›Limitations of words / language | Memory›Remembering | Morals›Loyalty | Recurring Tropes›Trying to say
Relationships: Familial›Father-son | Friendship›Adult-child | Hierarchical›Master-servant | Interracial›Boss-employee
Aesthetics: Diction›Racist term | Narrative›Anticipation | Narrative›Delayed revelation
Environment: Auditory›Engine | Time of Day›Morning
Actions: Bodily›Heart beating | Movement›Flight | Physical›Holding | Physical›Restraining | Physical›Running | Violent›Airplane crash
Cultural Issues: Race›Black body
Relationships: Friendship›Adult-child | Hierarchical›Master-servant
Cultural Issues: Race›Subverting a stereotype | Slavery›Violence
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Snake | Recurring Tropes›Revenge | Supernatural›Signs / Omen
Aesthetics: Recurring Episodes›Ringo whips Ab
Environment: Place›Plantation
Cultural Issues: Class›Respectability | Race›Black stereotype | Race›Native American
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Horses | Objects›Pistol | Recurring Tropes›Upward mobility
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›People compared to animals
Environment: Domestic Space›Stairway | Place›Plantation
Cultural Issues: Identity, Personal | Race›Division | Race›Miscegenation | Slavery›Racialism
Themes and Motifs: Appearance›Similarity | Body›Face | Recurring Tropes›Door | Recurring Tropes›Touch | Supernatural›Haunting
Relationships: Familial | Interracial
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Bird | Genre Conventions›Gothic | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Cultural Issues: Race›Miscegenation
Themes and Motifs: Body›Face | Recurring Tropes›Dream
Relationships: Familial
Aesthetics: Allusion, Biblical›Crucifixion | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Environment: Place›Plantation
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Wedding dress | Race›Etiquette
Themes and Motifs: Body›Voice | Objects›Photograph | Recurring Tropes›Door | Recurring Tropes›Dream | Recurring Tropes›Touch | Supernatural›Haunted house | Supernatural›Sickness | Supernatural›Soul / Spirit | Supernatural›Spell
Aesthetics: Genre Conventions›Gothic | Metafictional | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Environment: Place›Plantation
Actions: Domestic›Housekeeping | Domestic›Sewing | Hunting | Physical›Waiting | Work›Chopping wood | Work›Gardening
Cultural Issues: Race›Miscegenation | Slavery›Civil War | War›Deprivation | War›Homefront
Themes and Motifs: Chaos/Order›Wildness | Recurring Tropes›Restoration / rebuilding
Relationships: Familial | Interracial›White-black
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Italics
Cultural Issues: Group Mentality›Community collective | History›Carpetbaggers | History›Reconstruction | Race›Ku Klux Klan | Race›Riots
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Restoration / rebuilding
Aesthetics: Recurring Episodes›Sutpen rejects KKK | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Cultural Issues: Race›Ku Klux Klan
Themes and Motifs: Psychological›Madness | Recurring Tropes›Dream
Relationships: Marital›Arrangements
Environment: Atmospheric›Dust | Auditory›Gallop | Time of Day›Morning
Actions: Movement›Carriage | Perceptual›Watching
Cultural Issues: Age›Childhood | Class | Race›Stereotype: teeth | Religion›Sabbath | Slavery›Domestic labor
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Horses | Chaos/Order›Wildness | Memory›Remembering | Recurring Tropes›Upward mobility
Relationships: Familial | Interracial›Master-slave
Aesthetics: Allusion, Mythical›Djinn | Allusion, Mythical›Ogre | Figures of Speech›Face | Figures of Speech›Replica | Figures of Speech›Tornado
Relationships: Familial
Aesthetics: Allusion, Literary›Wilde, Oscar | Metafictional›Theatrical setting
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Mask
Actions: Interaction, Social›Visiting
Cultural Issues: Race
Environment: Atmospheric›Dust | Atmospheric›Thunder | Public›Church
Cultural Issues: Race›Black stereotype | Race›Stereotype: teeth | Religion›Sabbath
Cultural Issues: Race›Inequalities
Cultural Issues: Race›Segregation
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›People compared to animals
Relationships: Familial›Aunt-nephew | Familial›Orphan
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Italics
Environment: Domestic Space›Attic
Actions: Communication›Without words | Physical›Sleeping
Cultural Issues: Identity, Personal›Ambiguous | Race›Colorism
Relationships: Familial›Aunt-nephew
Cultural Issues: Cultural Identity›Southern identity | Identity, Cultural›South vs North | Race›Colorism | Race›Segregation
Aesthetics: Allusion, Mythical›Demon | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Cultural Issues: Gender›Feminine man | Race›Segregation
Themes and Motifs: Money›Gift of money
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Italics
Actions: Interaction, Social›Visiting
Cultural Issues: Race›Hierarchical | Slavery›Curse
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Absence | Meaning›Limitations of words / language
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Italics
Cultural Issues: Law›Wedding license | Race›Colorism
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Return home
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›People compared to animals
Actions: Mental›Disorientation
Cultural Issues: Race
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Leaving home
Relationships: Marital›Husband-wife
Actions: Economic›Share-cropping|Tenantry
Cultural Issues: Race›Miscegenation | Slavery›Persistence over time | Slavery›Quarters
Cultural Issues: Race›Miscegenation | Race›Racial identity
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Technological imagery
Cultural Issues: Law›Wedding license | Race›Miscegenation | Race›Segregation
Relationships: Familial›Aunt-nephew
Aesthetics: Allusion, Mythical›Demon
Cultural Issues: Entertainment›Honky-Tonks | Race›Racial identity
Cultural Issues: Gender›Feminine man | Race›Miscegenation | Race›Racial identity | Sexuality›Perverse
Cultural Issues: Age›Growing old | Clothes | Race›Colorism | Race›Miscegenation
Relationships: Familial›Aunt-nephew
Actions: Economic›Share-cropping|Tenantry | Verbal›Rumor
Cultural Issues: Group Mentality›Community collective | Race›Black stereotype | Slavery›Quarters
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›People compared to animals
Cultural Issues: Alcohol›Drunkenness | Race›Segregation
Cultural Issues: Race
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Dogs | Animals›Mules | Supernatural›Haunted house | Supernatural›Superstitions
Relationships: Interracial›White-black
Cultural Issues: Race›Racial identity
Themes and Motifs: Body›Mental disability | Inheritance›Traits | Naming
Cultural Issues: Age›Growing old | Race | Slavery›Quarters
Themes and Motifs: Appearance›Complexion | Supernatural›Haunted house
Cultural Issues: Race | Slavery›Fugitive | Slavery›White anxiety
Cultural Issues: Alcohol›Drunkenness | Class›Class consciousness | Race›Racial consciousness | Slavery›Labor
Themes and Motifs: Character›Innocence | Memory›Remembering
Relationships: Familial
Actions: Perceptual›Voyeurism
Cultural Issues: Class›Power | Clothes›Expensive and/or fancy clothes | Clothes›Shoes | Economy›Wealth | Race›Racial consciousness | Slavery›Slaves vs masters
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Italics
Environment: Place›Plantation
Cultural Issues: Race›Mixed race | Slavery›Revolt
Actions: Bodily›Crying | Bodily›Vomiting | Emotional›Outrage | Perceptual›Voyeurism | Verbal›Screaming | Violent›Fighting
Cultural Issues: Class›Power | Gender›Inversion | Race›Black stereotype | Slavery›Racialism | Slavery›Southern curse | Slavery›Violence | Violence›Interracial
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›People compared to animals
Relationships: Hierarchical›Master-slave
Actions: Physical›Discovering
Cultural Issues: Race›Mixed race | Slavery›Revolt
Environment: Place›Wilderness-civilized boundary
Cultural Issues: Race›Mixed race | Slavery›Revolt | Violence›Interracial
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Dirty | Health and Illness›Injury | Race›Stereotype cannibalism | Slavery›Fugitive | Slavery›Racialism
Actions: Moral›Deception | Verbal›Withholding
Cultural Issues: Class›Gentility | Race›Mixed race
Cultural Issues: Law›Compensation | Race›Mixed race
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Design | Time
Cultural Issues: Race›Mixed race
Themes and Motifs: Naming›Importance of naming | Recurring Tropes›Design | Values›Conscience
Environment: Time of Year›Spring
Actions: Physical›Travel | Verbal›Speculation
Cultural Issues: Race›Mixed race
Relationships: Familial
Cultural Issues: Class›Status, low | Race | Religion›Apotheosis | Slavery›Slaves vs poor whites
Relationships: Interracial›White-black
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Italics
Cultural Issues: Race›Black stereotype | Slavery›Racialism
Themes and Motifs: Time›Running out | Values›Determination
Relationships: Hierarchical›Master-slave
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›People compared to animals
Environment: Domestic Space›Drawing room
Cultural Issues: Race›Mixed race
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Arrival | Body›Skin | Character›Naivety | Home›Homecoming | Story-telling›Collaborative | Values›Love
Relationships: Familial›Mother-son
Aesthetics: Narrative›Conjectural narration
Actions: Interaction, Social›Visiting
Cultural Issues: Race›Miscegenation
Relationships: Familial›Interracial
Aesthetics: Interpretation | Narrative›Conjectural narration
Cultural Issues: Age›Youth | Race›Miscegenation | War
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Imitation
Relationships: Familial›Brother-brother | Familial›Interracial | Friendship›College roommate
Aesthetics: Narrative›Conjectural narration
Environment: Place›Plantation
Actions: Perceptual›Watching | Work›Building structure
Cultural Issues: Class›Respectability | Group Mentality›Community collective | Race›Black stereotype | Slavery›Imported | Slavery›Labor
Themes and Motifs: Appearance›Nakedness | Chaos/Order›Wildness | Objects›Pistol | Story-telling›Communal mythology
Relationships: Hierarchical›Master-slave
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›People compared to animals | Figures of Speech›Shadow
Environment: Time of Day›Night
Actions: Emotional›Despair | Emotional›Fear | Emotional›Hate | Emotional›Terror | Verbal›Warning | Violent›Hitting
Cultural Issues: Race
Themes and Motifs: Death›Corpse | Objects›Photograph | Recurring Tropes›Mausoleum | Recurring Tropes›Secret | Story-telling›Retelling | Supernatural›Haunted house
Relationships: Familial›Father-daughter | Interracial›White-black
Aesthetics: Narrative›Narrative shift
Environment: Time of Day›Night
Actions: Movement›Walking | Physical›Embrace / hugging
Cultural Issues: Race›Miscegenation | War›Civil War | War›Deprivation
Themes and Motifs: Past›Past in present | Recurring Tropes›Reunion
Relationships: Familial›Father-son
Aesthetics: Allusion, Historical›Shiloh | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Environment: Atmospheric›Cold | Time of Day›Dawn
Themes and Motifs: Objects›Gun | Recurring Tropes›Endurance
Relationships: Familial›Brother-brother
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Italics
Environment: Atmospheric›Cold
Cultural Issues: Race›Miscegenation
Themes and Motifs: Objects›Photograph
Relationships: Friendship›College roommate
Environment: Atmospheric›Cold | Atmospheric›Dark
Actions: Bodily›Going to bed | Verbal›Conversation
Cultural Issues: Class›Birthright | Cultural Identity›North vs South | Race | Region›The South | War›Civil War
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Military defeat | Character›Principle | Recurring Tropes›Glory | Supernatural›Ghost
Relationships: Familial›Descendants | Friendship›College roommate
Environment: Atmospheric›Dark | Domestic Space›Stairway
Cultural Issues: Crime›Breaking and entering | Gender›Masculine woman | Race›Miscegenation
Themes and Motifs: Body›Skin | Objects›Keys | Objects›Matchstick | Objects›Windows | Recurring Tropes›Door | Supernatural›Haunted house
Aesthetics: Genre Conventions›Gothic
Environment: Domestic Space›College dormitory
Actions: Verbal›Moralizing | Verbal›Predicting
Cultural Issues: Race
Relationships: Familial›Descendants | Friendship›College roommate
Cultural Issues: Group Mentality›Community collective | Group Mentality›Social Shaming | Race›Chickasaw
Relationships: Marital›Arrangements
Actions: Emotional›Anger | Emotional›Fury | Emotional›Hysteria | Movement›Walking | Verbal›Invitation
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Dress | Clothes›Shawl | Race›Hierarchical | Slavery›Domestic labor
Relationships: Marital›Arrangements
Cultural Issues: Race›Miscegenation
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Return home | Community›Secrecy
Actions: Emotional›Detachment | Interaction, Private›Seducing | Mental›Fatalism | Perceptual›Watching
Cultural Issues: Race›Miscegenation
Themes and Motifs: Character›Barbarism | Character›Sophistication
Aesthetics: Allusion, Historical›Roman consul | Allusion, Historical›Scythian
Actions: Mental›Discovery | Verbal›Speculation
Cultural Issues: Race›Miscegenation | Slavery›Sex
Themes and Motifs: Objects›Letter | Objects›Photograph
Relationships: Romantic
Cultural Issues: Race›Miscegenation
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Return home | Supernatural›Phantom
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Shadow | Symbolism›Blood
Environment: Place›Country vs city
Cultural Issues: Cultural Identity›Puritan | Race›Miscegenation | Sexuality›Female | Slavery›Sex
Themes and Motifs: Character›Naivety | Character›Provincialism
Actions: Interaction, Private›Conversation | Moral›Corrupting | Verbal›Arguing
Cultural Issues: Cultural Identity›Puritan | Race›White race | Religion›Godhead | Ritual›Initiation | Sexuality›Prostitution | Slavery›Commodity | Slavery›Racialism | Slavery›Sex
Themes and Motifs: Body›Blood | Body›Hair | Character›Gambler | Meaning›Meaninglessness | Philosophical›Evolution | Recurring Tropes›Eternal feminine | Values›Decorum | Values›Honor | Values›Propriety
Relationships: Friendship | Interracial›Marriage
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Bird | Figures of Speech›Seed
Cultural Issues: Health and Illness›Infection | Health and Illness›Injury | Health and Illness›Medicine | Race›Black stereotype
Themes and Motifs: Death›Coffin | Philosophical›Metaphysics
Environment: Olfactory›Decay | Public›Clock tower
Actions: Emotional›Outrage | Emotional›Shock | Mental›Misunderstanding | Movement›Wagon | Verbal›Apology | Verbal›Insulting | Violent›Fighting
Cultural Issues: Class›Town v. country/farm | Race›Inverting a stereotype
Environment: Atmospheric›Firelight | Place›Railroad | Time of Day›Night | Time of Year›Christmas | Weather›Frost
Actions: Movement›Horse | Verbal›Storytelling | Work›Construction
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Coat | Race›Black stereotype
Environment: Atmospheric›Moonlit | Auditory›Insect sounds
Cultural Issues: Alcohol›Moonshine | Race›Segregation
Relationships: Interracial›White-black
Aesthetics: Diction›Racist term
Actions: Economic›Lending Money | Emotional›Caring | Emotional›Theatricality | Movement›Carriage
Cultural Issues: Economy›Banking | Health and Illness›Convalescence | Race›Black stereotype
Relationships: Interracial›Master-servant
Actions: Violent›Interracial
Cultural Issues: History›Carpetbaggers | History›Reconstruction | Race›Disenfranchisement
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Door
Aesthetics: Diction›Racist term | Diction›Rural vernacular | Recurring Episodes›Negro voting
Environment: Time of Year›July
Actions: Perceptual›Listening | Verbal›Arguing
Cultural Issues: Health and Illness›Doctoring | Race›Division
Environment: Auditory›Dog barking | Time of Year›Christmas
Cultural Issues: Alcohol›Moonshine | Race›Stereotype: smell
Themes and Motifs: Exile
Relationships: Interracial›White-black
Environment: Time of Day›Twilight
Cultural Issues: Race›Segregation | Ritual›Christmas holiday traditions
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Departing Yoknapatawpha | Exile | Objects›Train
Aesthetics: Diction›African American vernacular dialect
Cultural Issues: Gender›Separate spaces | Race›Segregation
Themes and Motifs: Supernatural›Ghost | Texts›Epitaph
Actions: Verbal›Telling | Violent›Killing in war
Cultural Issues: Race›Equal rights | War›World War I
Aesthetics: Diction›African American vernacular dialect
Environment: Domestic Space›Kitchen
Cultural Issues: Race›Equal rights | Sexuality›Interracial | War›Return from war | War›World War I
Relationships: Familial›Father-son | Interracial›White-black
Aesthetics: Diction›African American vernacular dialect
Cultural Issues: Race›Equal rights
Relationships: Interracial›White-black
Aesthetics: Diction›African American vernacular dialect
Cultural Issues: Race›Miscegenation
Cultural Issues: Migration›North | Race›Miscegenation | Slavery›Marriage | Slavery›Slave trading
Relationships: Familial›Extended family | Familial›Genealogy
Aesthetics: Recurring Episodes›Recurring event, intratextual
Cultural Issues: Law›Inheritance | Race›Miscegenation | Slavery›Manumission
Cultural Issues: Law›Inheritance | Race›Miscegenation
Relationships: Familial›Extended family
Cultural Issues: Law›Inheritance | Race›Miscegenation
Cultural Issues: Gender›Masculinity | Law›Inheritance | Race›Miscegenation | Ritual›Birthday
Themes and Motifs: Money›Inheritance
Relationships: Familial›Cousin-cousin | Familial›Husband-wife
Aesthetics: Allusion, Geographical›Syria
Cultural Issues: Economy›Banking | Race›Miscegenation
Relationships: Familial›Cousin-cousin | Familial›Genealogy
Environment: Domestic Space›Hearth
Cultural Issues: Age›Childhood | Gender›Masculinity | Race›Stereotype: smell
Themes and Motifs: Death›In childbirth
Relationships: Familial›Genealogy | Friendship›Childhood friends | Interracial›Mammy-child
Environment: Domestic Space›Bedroom
Cultural Issues: Race›Division | Race›Racial identity
Relationships: Friendship›Childhood friends
Environment: Domestic Space›Bedroom | Time of Day›Dawn
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Absence as loss | Absence/Loss›Loss of innocence
Relationships: Friendship›Childhood friends
Relationships: Friendship›Childhood friends | Interracial›Mammy-child
Cultural Issues: Age›Childhood | Gender›Masculinity | Government›Usurpation | Race›Etiquette | Race›Miscegenation
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Loss of innocence
Relationships: Familial›Extended family | Familial›Father-son | Familial›Genealogy | Friendship›Childhood friends
Cultural Issues: Age›Adolescence | Gender›Masculinity | Race›Miscegenation
Relationships: Familial›Extended family | Familial›Father-son | Friendship›Childhood friends
Cultural Issues: Gender›Black women | Gender›Masculinity | Race›Miscegenation | Sexuality›Interracial
Relationships: Familial›Extended family | Familial›Father-son | Familial›Patriarch | Friendship›Childhood friends
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Italics
Cultural Issues: Race›Miscegenation
Themes and Motifs: Inheritance›Traits | Past›Past in present
Relationships: Familial›Extended family
Actions: Legal›Divorce | Mental›Changing one's mind
Cultural Issues: Gender›Masculinity | Race›Etiquette
Relationships: Hierarchical›Landlord-tenant | Marital›Divorce
Cultural Issues: Alcohol›Moonshine | Gender›Marriage | Race›Racial identity | Race›Segregated space | Ritual›Cemetery decorations
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Absence as loss | Absence/Loss›Of loved one | Death›Funeral | Meaning›Profound | Supernatural›Ghost
Relationships: Familial›Aunt-nephew | Familial›Husband-wife | Social›Coworker
Aesthetics: Recurring Episodes›Mannie's death
Environment: Domestic Space›Kitchen
Cultural Issues: Race›Black stereotype
Themes and Motifs: Story-telling›Audience response
Relationships: Marital›Conflict | Marital›Husband-wife
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Dehumanizing | Narrative›Summary | Recurring Episodes›Rider in jail
Cultural Issues: Race›Black stereotype
Relationships: Marital›Death of spouse
Aesthetics: Narrative›Perspective | Narrative›Revision | Recurring Episodes›Recurring event, intratextual
Cultural Issues: Crime›Murder | Group Mentality›Community collective | Race›Black stereotype
Themes and Motifs: Story-telling›Retelling
Aesthetics: Narrative›Perspective | Narrative›Summary | Recurring Episodes›Recurring event, intratextual
Environment: Place›Yoknapatawpha Beat
Relationships: Familial›Aunt-nephew
Aesthetics: Allusion, Geographical›Jackson, Tennessee
Actions: Emotional›Crying | Emotional›Grief | Emotional›Laughing | Mental›Thinking | Violent›Fighting | Work›Law enforcement
Cultural Issues: Law›Chain gang | Law›Incarceration | Race›Black incarceration | Race›Stereotype eyes
Themes and Motifs: Character›Superhuman strength
Aesthetics: Narrative›Perspective
Cultural Issues: Ethnicity›Native American | Race›Chickasaw
Relationships: Friendship›Male-male relationship | Social›Isolation
Aesthetics: Diction›African American vernacular dialect | Diction›Hill dialect
Cultural Issues: Race›Black stereotype
Aesthetics: Narrative›Anticipation
Environment: Atmospheric›Cold
Cultural Issues: Ethnicity›Native American | Food›Breakfast | Identity, Cultural›Heritage | Identity, Personal›Hunter | Race›Miscegenation
Relationships: Hierarchical›Employer-employee
Cultural Issues: Economy›Tenantry|Share-cropping | Race›Behaving "white" | Slavery›Persistence over time
Actions: Communication›Writing
Cultural Issues: Clothes›And class | Clothes›And race | Identity, Cultural›Northerner | Identity, Cultural›Yankee | Race›Behaving "white"
Relationships: Interracial›Pseudo-family
Actions: Verbal›Interruption
Cultural Issues: Government›Bureaucracy | Race›White race | Slavery›Southern curse
Cultural Issues: History›Civil War | Identity, Cultural›Southern stereotype | Race›White fear
Themes and Motifs: Chaos/Order›Social order|disorder
Actions: Economic›Accounting
Cultural Issues: Agriculture›Share-cropping|Tenantry | Government›Voting rights | History›Civil War consequences | History›Reconstruction | Identity, Cultural›Heritage | Race›White fear | Race›White supremacists | Slavery›Emancipation | Slavery›Freedom | Slavery›Interracial violence | Violence›Lynching
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Absence | Chaos/Order›Social order|disorder
Aesthetics: Allusion, Biblical›Noah/flood
Cultural Issues: Clothes›And race | Gender›Southern woman | Race›Miscegenation | Sexuality›Interracial
Themes and Motifs: Memory›Remembering
Relationships: Interracial›Master-servant
Cultural Issues: History›Pre-World War II issues | Race›Miscegenation | Sexuality›Extra-marital
Relationships: Intergenerational›Hunting party
Aesthetics: Description›Character portrait | Diction›Double entendre
Actions: Emotional›Restlessness | Perceptual›Misreading
Cultural Issues: Race›Shadow of Negro
Relationships: Hierarchical›Master-servant | Intergenerational›Hunting party
Aesthetics: Diction›Double entendre | Figures of Speech›Hunting metaphor / imagery | Symbolism›Shadows
Actions: Emotional›Outrage | Perceptual›Moment of vision
Cultural Issues: Labor›Racialized | Race›Black stereotype | Race›Miscegenation | Race›Racial spheres | Segregation›Marriage
Relationships: Interracial›Marriage
Aesthetics: Description›Character portrait | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Cultural Issues: Age›Old age | History›Great Migration | Race›Segregation | Segregation›Marriage | Sexuality›Incest
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Leaving | Inheritance›Property | Inheritance›Traits | Money›Filthy lucre | Naming›And caste | Objects›Hunting horn | Values›Love
Relationships: Familial›Extended family | Familial›Interracial
Aesthetics: Diction›Racist term
Actions: Bodily›Panting | Perceptual›Moment of vision
Cultural Issues: Cultural Identity›Country vs city | Identity, Cultural›South vs North | Land-Use›Loss of wilderness | Race›Segregation | Sexuality›Interracial
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Absence | Chaos/Order›Social order|disorder
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Italics
Actions: Economic›Competition
Cultural Issues: Crime›Bootlegging | Economy›Bootlegging | Race›Black property ownership
Relationships: Hierarchical›Landlord-tenant
Actions: Agricultural›Farming
Cultural Issues: Race›Black property ownership
Relationships: Hierarchical›Landlord-tenant
Environment: Atmospheric›Wind | Time of Year›Summer
Cultural Issues: Education›Harvard | Education›Heidelberg | Law›Missing person | Race›Aunt as term for black woman | Slavery›Biblical analogy
Themes and Motifs: Texts›Bible | Texts›Translation
Relationships: Familial›Grandparent-grandchild
Cultural Issues: Race›Black stereotype
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Abandonment
Relationships: Familial›Father-son | Familial›Mother-son | Familial›Orphan
Cultural Issues: Race›White savior
Themes and Motifs: Supernatural›Insight
Relationships: Hierarchical›Employer-employee | Interracial›White-black
Cultural Issues: Race›White savior
Themes and Motifs: Death›Funeral | Home›Homecoming
Relationships: Familial›Descendants | Interracial›Pseudo-family
Actions: Perceptual›Looking back
Cultural Issues: Economy›Property | Gender›Masculinity | Race›Miscegenation | Race›Native American | Slavery›Miscegenation
Themes and Motifs: Inheritance›Traits
Relationships: Hierarchical›Landlord-tenant | Hierarchical›Master-slave
Environment: Domestic Space›Dilapidation | Olfactory›Old woman smell | Time of Day›Night
Cultural Issues: Race›Aunt as term for black woman | Slavery›Biblical analogy | Slavery›Legacy after emancipation
Themes and Motifs: Community›Alienation | Recurring Tropes›Fire on the hearth
Relationships: Familial›Brother-sister | Interracial›Pseudo-family
Cultural Issues: Alcohol›Moonshine | Race›Playing to racial expectations / stereotypes
Themes and Motifs: Objects›Still | Psychological›Manipulation
Relationships: Hierarchical›Landlord-tenant | Intergenerational›Rivalry
Cultural Issues: Gender›Masculinity | Government›Usurpation | Law›Inheritance | Race›Miscegenation
Relationships: Familial›Extended family | Familial›Patriarch | Intergenerational›Rivalry
Environment: Domestic Space›Gallery
Relationships: Hierarchical›Landlord-tenant
Environment: Domestic Space›Architecture
Aesthetics: Narrative›Chronological enjambment
Actions: Physical›Inaction / Not doing something
Cultural Issues: Race›Etiquette | Race›Racial spheres
Aesthetics: Narrative›Temporal projection
Actions: Bodily›Childbirth | Mental›Remembering
Cultural Issues: Race›Black family working for white
Actions: Bodily›Childbirth | Mental›Remembering | Movement›Crossing
Cultural Issues: Race›Black family working for white
Aesthetics: Allusion, Mythical›Lethe
Environment: Domestic Space›Hearth
Cultural Issues: Gender›Masculinity | Race›Black family working for white | Race›Miscegenation | Race›Racial identity
Relationships: Familial›Husband-wife | Hierarchical›Landlord-tenant | Interracial›Mammy-child | Marital›Jealousy
Environment: Domestic Space›Hearth
Actions: Emotional›Rage | Mental›Remembering | Violent›Intent to kill
Cultural Issues: Economy›Savings | Gender›Masculinity | Race›Equal rights | Race›Miscegenation
Themes and Motifs: Inheritance | Objects›Razor
Relationships: Familial›Grandparent-grandchild | Familial›Husband-wife
Environment: Domestic Space›Bedroom | Time of Day›Daybreak
Cultural Issues: Gender›Masculinity | Race›Miscegenation
Relationships: Familial›Competition | Familial›Extended family
Actions: Bodily›Breathing | Domestic›Child care
Cultural Issues: Clothes›And race | Clothes›Shoes | Gender›Masculinity | Race›Miscegenation | Race›Stereotype black women's sexual promiscuity
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Departure
Relationships: Familial›Husband-wife | Marital›Jealousy
Aesthetics: Symbolism›Fire | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Cultural Issues: Alcohol›Race | Alcohol›Whiskey | Crime›Moonshining | Economy›Moonshine | Race›Playing to racial expectations / stereotypes
Relationships: Hierarchical›Landlord-tenant | Intergenerational›Rivalry
Cultural Issues: Alcohol›Moonshine | Race›Black stereotype
Relationships: Hierarchical›Landlord-tenant
Actions: Verbal›Questioning
Cultural Issues: Law›Testimony | Race›Miscegenation
Relationships: Familial›Extended family | Marital›Honeymoon
Cultural Issues: Race›Miscegenation
Relationships: Familial›Extended family
Aesthetics: Symbolism›Blood | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Cultural Issues: Cultural Identity›Anglophile | Gender›Bachelor | Race›Mixed race | Slavery›Courtship | Slavery›Family | Slavery›Slave trading
Relationships: Social›