Keywords

Vocabulary: Cultural Issues
Term ID Termsort descending Parent Description
1518 Interracial Violence
278 Interracial violence Slavery
4791 Interruption Crime
2985 Interwar years Modernity
5501 Intolerance Group Mentality
2241 Intraregional migration Migration

This keyword is for characters who move out of Yoknapatawpha to another place inside the South - the "South" being defined in this instance as the former slave-holding states, including the 3 (Missouri, Kentucky and Maryland) that did not secede from the Union. The most typical instance of intraregional migration involves black characters who move to Memphis, like Versh in The Sound and the Fury.  SR

Also it can be used for characters who move into Yoknapatawpha from another place in the South. CR and JJ

4716 Invalid Health and Illness
1663 Invention Technology
1945 Inversion Gender
4590 Inverting a stereotype Race
4757 Investigation Law
1684 Ironies of Progress
4824 Irregular troop War
2807 Islam Religion
2768 Italian Ethnicity
5404 Italian invasion of Ethiopia History
5795 Itinerant Class

This refers to a specific subset of sharecroppers and tenant farmers who are forced to move to different locations from season to season. This is particularly true of the Snopeses. The first use is Mink's family who moves constantly.

3597 Jacket Clothes
4927 Jacobite Rebellion War
5576 Jaguar Technology
960 Japanese Nationality
5731 Jesus Religion
2468 Jewelry Clothes
3925 Jewish Ethnicity
4698 Jewish Cultural Identity
5312 Jewish Race

This is listed under cultural identity and ethnic identity, but in "Death Drag" it is very clear that this is a racial difference. The text states, "When he came up the spectators saw that he, like the limping man, was also a Jew. That is, they knew at once that two of the strangers were of a different race from themselves, without being able to say what the difference was" (188). Not sure if it makes to consolidate with the other forms of identifying Jewishness. JHB

Vocabulary: Relationships
Term ID Termsort descending Parent Description
3317 Interracial Familial
480 Interspecies (First level term)
1351 Invented Familial
1420 Isolation Social

This term describes moments when a character is isolated or ostracized from the wider social community. BR
Also used this term when a person intentionally isolates him/herself from the larger community. JJ

1406 Jailer-prisoner Institutional
4055 Jealousy Marital
Vocabulary: Actions
Term ID Termsort descending Parent Description
1507 Interrogation Interaction, Private
3673 Interruption Verbal
3735 Interurban streetcar / trolley Movement
2065 Intimidation Emotional
2764 Intimidation Violent
4238 Introspective Emotional
2159 Intrusion Physical
2937 Intuition Emotional
1299 Investigating Perceptual
2691 Investing Economic
1218 Invitation Verbal
5672 Janitor Work
975 Jealousy Emotional
3501 Jeweler Work
4631 Joking Communication
Vocabulary: Aesthetics
Term ID Termsort descending Parent Description
483 Intertextuality (First level term)
3577 Invisible wire Figures of Speech
5490 Ireland Allusion, Geographical
3085 Ironic Tone
3404 Irony Narrative
4999 Isaac Allusion, Biblical
4139 Island of silence Figures of Speech
5184 Israel Allusion, Geographical
5374 Italian Language
3413 Italian flag Allusion, Geographical
516 Italics Typography/Orthography
4580 Italy Allusion, Geographical
2829 Iuka, Mississippi Allusion, Geographical
2668 Jackal Figures of Speech
3042 Jackson as synonym for state insane hospital Allusion, Geographical
4915 Jackson, Andrew Allusion, Historical
1119 Jackson, Mississippi Allusion, Geographical
5581 Jackson, Tennessee Allusion, Geographical
1167 Jackson, Thomas "Stonewall" Allusion, Historical
5396 Jacob Allusion, Biblical
4343 James River, Virginia Allusion, Geographical
1699 James, Jesse Allusion, Historical
4342 Jamestown, Virginia Allusion, Geographical
5528 Japan Allusion, Geographical
4208 Jazz Age Allusion, Historical
5796 Jefferson Allusion, Geographical

This version of Jefferson is distinct from Environment -> Place, because it is being used to refer to Jefferson from a place that is not Jefferson (i.e. Frenchman's Bend). This is particularly pronounced in The Hamlet where Jefferson becomes an idealized reference point.

5059 Jefferson's first car Recurring Episodes
5591 Jefferson, Thomas Allusion, Historical
4117 Jehovah Allusion, Biblical
5027 Jenny arrives Recurring Episodes
4364 Jericho Allusion, Biblical
3268 Jesus Allusion, Biblical
3348 Jesus walking on water Allusion, Biblical
5178 Jezebel Allusion, Biblical
5799 Job Allusion, Biblical
2079 John L. Sullivan Allusion, Historical
5030 Johnny Sartoris shot down Recurring Episodes
3434 Johnston, Joseph E. Allusion, Historical
3792 Johnstown, Pennsylvania Allusion, Geographical
Vocabulary: Themes and Motifs
Term ID Termsort descending Parent Description
522 Intestines Body
3978 Invisibility Appearance
1681 Iron box Objects
989 Jailbreak Arrivals/Departures
3891 Jaw Body
4437 Jazz music Art
3502 Jeweler's loupe / magnifying glass Objects
3353 Jewelry Charm Objects
2997 Jimson weed Objects

Also known as Jamestown weed. -JBP

Vocabulary: Environment
Term ID Termsort descending Parent Description
3683 Ivy Natural
1399 Jail Public
892 Jail Place
2916 January Time of Year
878 Jefferson Place

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