Cultural Issues: Region The South

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When a narrator or character explicitly foregrounds the region as distinctive, problematic, or otherwise noteworthy. JW

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"All the Dead Pilots", 513 (Event)
Cultural Issues: Identity, Cultural›America vs Europe | Identity, Cultural›Southern stereotype | Region›The South | War›Death | War›Women
Aesthetics: Language›Slang, military
"By the People", 134 (Event)
Actions: Interaction, Social›Conversion | Verbal›Lying
Cultural Issues: Group Mentality›Community collective | History›Civil Rights legislation | Politics›Corruption | Politics›Exploitative | Politics›Political ambition | Race›Negro-lover | Race›Segregation | Region›The South
Aesthetics: Narrative›Irony
"By the People", 136 (Event)
Actions: Emotional›Despair | Verbal›Speech
Cultural Issues: Group Mentality›Community collective | Health and Illness›Amputation | Politics›Campaigning | Race›Negro-lover | Region›The South
Themes and Motifs: Character›Persistence
"Monk", 48 (Event)
Cultural Issues: Region›The South
Aesthetics: Allusion, Historical›Jackson, Thomas "Stonewall"
"Monk", 57 (Event)
Cultural Issues: Government›Corruption | Politics›Election | Region›The South
Themes and Motifs: Community›Tradition | Values›Justice
"Tomorrow", 90 (Event)
Actions: Legal›Defending | Legal›Recess | Legal›Summation | Mental›Remembering
Cultural Issues: Age›Youth | Agriculture›Farming life | Law›Eye for an eye | Law›Grand jury | Law›Hearing | Law›Indictment | Region›The South
Themes and Motifs: Inheritance›Traits | Morals›Justice | Morals›Responsibility | Philosophical›Human nature
Relationships: Familial›Father-daughter
Aesthetics: Description›Character portrait
Absalom, Absalom!, 12 (Event)
Actions: Emotional›Despair
Cultural Issues: Gender›Masculinity | Gender›Southern woman | Gender›War | Region›The South | War›Deprivation
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›War | Objects›Sword | Values›Honor | Values›Valor
Relationships: Familial›Exigent circumstances
Absalom, Absalom!, 13 (Event)
Actions: Violent›Fighting
Cultural Issues: Alcohol | Crime›Gambling | Region›The South | Religion›Institutional | Slavery›Southern curse | Violence›Interracial
Themes and Motifs: Character›Teetotaler | Meaning | Recurring Tropes›Fatality | Recurring Tropes›Upward mobility
Relationships: Familial | Friendship | Marital›Arrangements
Aesthetics: Allusion, Biblical›Divine intervention | Allusion, Biblical›Heaven
Absalom, Absalom!, 142 (Event)
Actions: Verbal›Questioning
Cultural Issues: Region›The South
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Italics
Absalom, Absalom!, 176 (Event)
Environment: Weather›Cold
Actions: Bodily›Smoking
Cultural Issues: Region›The South
Themes and Motifs: Objects›Letter | Objects›Pipe | Past›Past in present
Aesthetics: Allusion, Literary›Ben-Hur
Absalom, Absalom!, 209 (Event)
Actions: Emotional›Hate
Cultural Issues: Region›The South | Slavery
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Doom
Absalom, Absalom!, 276 (Event)
Actions: Military›Retreat
Cultural Issues: Class›Caste system | Region›The South | War›Civil War | War›Defeat
Aesthetics: Allusion, Geographical›Alabama | Allusion, Geographical›Georgia | Allusion, Geographical›South Carolina | Allusion, Historical›Battle of Atlanta | Allusion, Historical›Battle of Chickamauga | Allusion, Historical›Battle of Corinth | Allusion, Historical›Battle of Franklin | Allusion, Historical›Battle of Vicksburg | Allusion, Historical›Bertrand du Guesclin | Allusion, Historical›Richard I of England | Allusion, Historical›Roland of Roncesvalles
Absalom, Absalom!, 288 (Event)
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
Aesthetics: Allusion, Geographical›Gettysburg | Allusion, Geographical›University of Mississippi | Allusion, Historical›Pickett's Charge | Allusion, Historical›Sherman, William Tecumseh
Absalom, Absalom!, 301 (Event)
Environment: Domestic Space›College dormitory | Olfactory›Cigar
Actions: Perceptual›Reading / Researching | Verbal›Silence
Cultural Issues: Region›The South
Themes and Motifs: Objects›Letter | Objects›Windows | Objects›Wisteria | Past›Past in present
Absalom, Absalom!, 303 (Event)
Environment: Atmospheric›Cold | Atmospheric›Dark | Domestic Space›College dormitory
Actions: Bodily›Panting | Emotional›Ambivalence | Mental›Thinking
Cultural Issues: Region›The South
Relationships: Friendship›College roommate
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Negation | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Absalom, Absalom!, 4 (Event)
Actions: Perceptual›Listening | Verbal›Dialogue
Cultural Issues: Cultural Identity | Region›The South | Slavery›Labor | Violence
Themes and Motifs: Story-telling | Supernatural›Ghost
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Negation | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Absalom, Absalom!, 6 (Event)
Actions: Perceptual›Ambiguity | Verbal›Storytelling
Cultural Issues: Region›The South | Religion›Godhead | War›Defeat
Aesthetics: Allusion, Mythical›Demon | Symbolism›Blood | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Absalom, Absalom!, 7 (Event)
Environment: Domestic Space›Gallery | Time of Day›Dusk
Actions: Verbal›Conversation | Verbal›Speculation
Cultural Issues: Gender›Chivalry | History›Civil War as point of reference | Region›The South
Themes and Motifs: Past | Supernatural›Ghost
Relationships: Familial›Father-son
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Skeleton | Narrative›Anticipation
The Mansion, 166 (Event)
Actions: Bodily›Crying | Emotional›Grief | Emotional›Love
Cultural Issues: Alcohol›Moonshine | Alcohol›Racial|Regional stereotypes about drinking | Cultural Identity›Southern identity | Region›The South
The Mansion, 339 (Event)
Cultural Issues: History›Negro troops | Race›Race as a form of behavior | Region›The South
The Mansion, 342 (Event)
Cultural Issues: Age›Generation gap | Government›Congress | History›Civil Rights legislation | Prejudice›Racism | Race›Integration | Race›Negro-lover | Region›The South | War›Military awards
The Sound and the Fury, 106 (Event)
Environment: Olfactory›Flowers | Place›Sawmill
Actions: Communication›Letter | Interaction, Private›Seducing | Mental›Imagining | Moral›Scheming | Physical›Meddling | Verbal›Conversation | Verbal›Storytelling | Violent›Throwing downstairs
Cultural Issues: Class›Aristocratic posing | Class›British nobility | Class›Elite | Clothes›Silk | Cultural Identity›North vs South | Cultural Identity›Southern identity | Education›Divinity school | Food›Pumpkin pie | Gender›Bitch | Gender›Lady | Gender›Maternal impulse | Gender›Southern woman | History›Confederacy / Confederate States of America / C.S.A. | Race›Black family working for white | Race›Subservient / Obsequious to whites | Region›The South | Slavery›Galley slave
Themes and Motifs: Objects›Flower orchid | Objects›Handkerchief | Objects›Shotgun | Recurring Tropes›Sole owner and proprietor | Recurring Tropes›Twilight | Story-telling›Communal mythology
Relationships: Familial›Mother-son | Friendship›College companions / classmates | Interracial›Master-servant | Social›Homoerotic
Aesthetics: Allusion, Geographical›Canada | Diction›African American vernacular dialect | Diction›Racist term | Figures of Speech›Synesthesia | Genre Conventions›Melodrama | Genre Conventions›Romance / Romanticism | Genre Conventions›Tall tale | Narrative›Resumption of sentence after interruption | Narrative›Stream of consciousness narration | Tone›Overwrought | Tone›Sarcastic | Typography/Orthography›Lack of Punctuation
The Sound and the Fury, 113 (Event)
Environment: Atmospheric›Sunlight | Natural›Fecundity / lushness | Natural›Trees | Place›Road | Place›Stone wall | Weather›Coolness
Actions: Bodily›Hungering | Movement›Walking
Cultural Issues: Food›Bread | Progress›Smoke stack | Region›North | Region›The South
Themes and Motifs: Home | Recurring Tropes›Dream | Recurring Tropes›Thinking of home | Time›Being outside of time | Time›Return to present time
Aesthetics: Allusion, Mythical›Chimera / Chimaera | Allusion, Mythical›Female monsters | Description›Color blue | Description›Color green | Figures of Speech›Fertilise / Fertility imagery | Figures of Speech›Synesthesia | Figures of Speech›Violent in figurative sense | Language›Fragments
The Sound and the Fury, 148 (Event)
Environment: Atmospheric›Wetness | Natural›Dew | Time of Day›Breakfast
Actions: Economic›Gifting | Verbal›Banter / small talk | Verbal›Storytelling | Verbal›Talking
Cultural Issues: Alcohol›Drink recipe | Alcohol›Mint julep | Alcohol›Traditional southern drink | Class›Aristocratic posing | Cultural Identity›Southern identity | Gender›Southern woman | Region›The South
Themes and Motifs: Objects›Plant mint | Past›Family history
Relationships: Familial›Father-daughter | Intergenerational›Grandparent-grandchild | Interracial›Master-servant
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Old maid | Style›Unfinished sentence
The Sound and the Fury, 78 (Event)
Actions: Emotional›Cynicism | Emotional›Sadness | Moral›Lying | Verbal›Conversation | Verbal›Taunt | Verbal›Teasing
Cultural Issues: Age›Youth | Gender›Women | Region›The South | Sexuality›Female | Sexuality›Promiscuity | Sexuality›Virginity
Themes and Motifs: Death›Like death | Futility›Failure to defend honor | Memory›Remembering | Morals›Honor | Philosophical›Nihilism | Psychological›Obsession | Recurring Tropes›Father said | Recurring Tropes›Little sister | Values›Honor
Relationships: Familial›Brother-sister | Familial›Father-son | Friendship›College roommate | Friendship›Male-male relationship | Social›Adversarial | Social›Homoerotic
Aesthetics: Diction›Misogynistic wording | Language›Fragments | Narrative›Stream of consciousness narration | Typography/Orthography›Dialogue with no quotation marks | Typography/Orthography›Lack of Punctuation
The Sound and the Fury, 86 (Event)
Environment: Public›Street
Actions: Mental›Self-consciousness | Mental›Thinking | Movement›Streetcar | Perceptual›Reading / Researching
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Hat, derby | Clothes›Shoes | Cultural Identity›North vs South | Mass Media›Newspaper | Race›Colored people as acceptable terminology | Race›Race as a form of behavior | Race›Racial consciousness | Race›Racial identity | Region›North | Region›The South
Themes and Motifs: Home›Homesickness_Longing for home | Objects›Cigar
Relationships: Interracial›White-black
Aesthetics: Diction›Racist term | Narrative›Self-Reflective | Symbolism›Reflection
The Sound and the Fury, 91 (Event)
Environment: Atmospheric›Sunlight | Domestic Space›Apartment | Domestic Space›College dormitory | Natural›River | Public›Chapel | Time of Day›Night
Actions: Bodily›Birth / Being born | Emotional›Stubbornness | Moral›Condoning | Moral›Forgiveness | Movement›Boat | Play›Sports Crew / rowing
Cultural Issues: Class›Aristocratic posing | Class›British nobility | Class›noblesse-oblige | Clothes›Expensive and/or fancy clothes | Education›Chapel Service (morning prayers) | Gender›Lady | Region›The South | Sexuality›Illegitimacy | Sexuality›Promiscuity
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Horses | Appearance›Beautiful/handsome | Body›Eyes | Body›Hair | Character›Regal | Naming›French noble names | Naming›Long name | Time›Return to present time | Values›Virtue
Relationships: Familial›Mother-son | Friendship›College companions / classmates | Hierarchical›Elder-younger
Aesthetics: Allusion, Geographical›Cambridge, Massachusetts | Allusion, Geographical›Kentucky | Allusion, Geographical›Mason and Dixon Line | Diction›Racist term | Language›Fragments | Narrative›Resumption of sentence after interruption | Narrative›Stream of consciousness narration | Typography/Orthography›Lack of Punctuation
The Sound and the Fury, 92 (Event)
Environment: Time of Year›April | Time of Year›Spring
Actions: Communication›Letter | Communication›Marriage announcement | Economic›Banking | Economic›Selling | Emotional›Contempt | Interaction, Private›Domineering | Interaction, Private›Seducing | Interaction, Private›Seeking approval | Interaction, Social›Celebration | Interaction, Social›Marriage | Mental›Distrust | Mental›Learning | Movement›Car | Movement›Limousine | Physical›Driving | Verbal›Bragging | Verbal›Conversation | Verbal›Joking | Violent›Fighting | Violent›Hitting
Cultural Issues: Class›Elite | Class›Gentility | Class›Pretension | Clothes›Garter | Clothes›Underclothes, female | Cultural Identity›Country vs city | Cultural Identity›Southern identity | Education›Harvard | Entertainment›Circus | Gender›Marriage | Region›The South | Sexuality›Incest
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Elephants | Animals›Fleas | Body›Eyes | Body›Face | Body›Teeth | Character›Inherited traits | Character›Reputation | Community›Wedding | Futility›Failure to defend honor | Inheritance›Traits | Memory›Remembering | Money›Stingy with money | Morals›Honor | Objects›Candle | Objects›Eyeglasses | Objects›Flowers | Objects›Windows | Past›Personal past | Psychological›Obsession | Recurring Tropes›Little sister | Supernatural›Spell | Time›Abrupt shift in time | Time›Travel back in time | Values›Honor | Values›Propriety | Values›Virtue
Relationships: Familial›Mother-daughter | Familial›Mother-son | Friendship›College roommate | Hierarchical›Master-servant | Marital›Forced | Romantic›Courtship | Romantic›Fiance | Romantic›Flirtation | Sexual | Social›Adversarial | Social›Neighbor
Aesthetics: Allusion, Geographical›Harvard University | Allusion, Geographical›South Bend, Indiana | Allusion, Literary›Byron | Allusion, Literary›Poem "Don Juan" | Allusion, Literary›Poem "Marmion" | Allusion, Literary›Scott, Walter | Figures of Speech›Puppy | Figures of Speech›Simile | Genre Conventions›Romance / Romanticism | Language›Fragments | Narrative›Stream of consciousness narration | Style›Long sentence | Tone›Sarcastic | Typography/Orthography›Dialogue with no quotation marks | Typography/Orthography›Italics | Typography/Orthography›Lack of Punctuation
The Town, 300 (Event)
Actions: Verbal›Persuasion
Cultural Issues: Education›Female education | Education›Need to be educated | Gender›Southern woman | Region›The South
Relationships: Familial›Father-daughter
Aesthetics: Narrative›Parentheses