Keywords

Vocabulary: Cultural Issues
Term ID Term Parentsort descending Description
543 Attractiveness Sexuality
3040 Birth control Sexuality
2174 Conception/Conceiving a child Sexuality
1565 Desire Sexuality
3648 Disgust with sex Sexuality
3475 Experience Sexuality
850 Extra-marital Sexuality
3753 Fantasy Sexuality
5552 Fear of sex Sexuality
1360 Female Sexuality
5604 Fetishism Sexuality
3129 First sexual encounter or experience Sexuality

There did not seem to be a keyword for one's first time having sex, so I added this. JBP

1337 Frustration Sexuality
2442 Harassment Sexuality
5279 Having sex Sexuality
582 Illegitimacy Sexuality
3082 Impotence Sexuality
3290 Incest Sexuality
1580 Interracial Sexuality
2155 Learning about Sexuality

This admittedly clumsy term is for when a narrative deals with a character being told or otherwise learning about sexual matters. (The specific impetus for its creation is in "Miss Zilphia Gant" when her mother starts strip searching her at age 13 and begins telling her "what her father had done and what she had done.") JBP

5350 Male vitality Sexuality
4896 Manipulative Sexuality
5005 Nudity Sexuality
3975 Orgasm Sexuality
4490 Perverse Sexuality
4493 Pornography Sexuality
4180 Predatory Sexuality
4706 Pregnancy Sexuality
564 Pregnant out of wedlock Sexuality
880 Premarital Sexuality
3349 Preventing or avoiding sex Sexuality
2298 Promiscuity Sexuality
1434 Prostitution Sexuality
2154 Puberty Sexuality

For when a text makes reference (perhaps implicitly) to puberty and/or sexual maturing. It was added for the moment in "Miss Zilphia Gant" when her mother makes her get naked and examines her body each month when she turns 13.

5610 Racialized Sexuality
3807 Sensuality Sexuality
3900 Sex and death Sexuality
3650 Sexual passion Sexuality
1422 Unattractiveness Sexuality
1342 Vicarious Sexuality
1884 Virginity Sexuality
3087 Voyeurism Sexuality
5354 Wonderful Sexuality
302 AANoSecondTerm Slavery
317 Abolition Slavery
305 African origins Slavery
328 Amelioration Slavery

To mark passages where white slave owners make some attempt to improve the condition of the slaves they own; the clearest example is way Buck and Buddy McCaslin treat their slaves. SR

3178 And progress Slavery
5564 As cause of Civil War Slavery
303 Biblical analogy Slavery
293 Biblical curse Slavery
288 Big house vs quarters Slavery
5609 Buying slaves Slavery
292 Civil War Slavery
287 Commodity Slavery
309 Concubinage Slavery
2446 Courtship Slavery
326 Curse Slavery
320 Demographics Slavery

For passages that include specific numbers about the people or places involved, as when Bayard says that before the War on Sundays, there would be 10 slaves at the service for every 1 white person. SR

314 Discipline Slavery

For passages that depict or refer to any elements of the system by which slaves were policed or punished, like the "Patrollers" who patrolled roads after dark to prevent slaves from leaving plantations. SR

274 Domestic labor Slavery
330 Emancipation Slavery
291 Etiquette Slavery
299 Evil Slavery
313 Family Slavery
307 Field slaves vs house slaves Slavery
280 Forced migration Slavery
315 Freedom Slavery
283 Fugitive Slavery
3743 Galley slave Slavery
2512 Growth of Slavery
324 Guilt Slavery
4985 Housing Slavery
4778 Humiliation Slavery
2504 Imported Slavery

To indicate when slaves began their lives (in either freedom or slavery) outside the U.S. The most obvious example are the slaves Sutpen brings with him from the Caribbean. SR

329 Indian slave-owners Slavery
278 Interracial violence Slavery
273 Labor Slavery
2202 Legacy after emancipation Slavery

Refers to when a text alludes to the legacy of slavery years (or decades) after the end of slavery. It was created to tag the references to "sold my Benjamin" in "Go Down, Moses" - a story whose very title alludes to slavery. JBP

2419 Local origins Slavery
285 Loyalty Slavery

To note passages in which enslaved people are described - or describe themselves - as loyal to the family that owns them, as when Simon describes how happy all the Sartoris slaves were at the birth of their master's son. SR

286 Manumission Slavery
310 Marriage Slavery
281 Metaphorical Slavery

Used to flag the passages in which a narrator or a non-enslaved character uses "slavery" metaphorically, to describe something else. Lucas Burch, for instance, complains that his job at the planing mill has him "slaving all day." SR

308 Middle passage Slavery
316 Minstrelsy Slavery

Used to mark the passages where the representation of a slave or group of slaves draws on the representational conventions of blackface minstrelsy, where slaves were depicted as comically inferior to whites. The scene in "Retreat" where Ringo "hollers and moans and hollers again" for "Marse John" and "Bayard and Colonel and Marse John and Granny" is an instance of this. SR

279 Miscegenation Slavery
300 Music Slavery
311 Naming slaves Slavery
301 Nostalgia Slavery

When black characters, especially ones who had been enslaved, seem nostalgic for the institution of slavery. Simon in Flags in the Dust is probably the most obvious instance of this. SR

282 Ownership Slavery

For moments in the texts where owning slaves is evoked as a marker of status or wealth, as when Jason Compson connects his family pride to the fact that his ancestors owned slaves. SR

294 Persistence over time Slavery
276 Purchase Slavery
304 Quarters Slavery
272 Racialism Slavery

Used to note passages where enslaved blacks are described as members of an inferior species. The Indians in "Red Leaves," for example, say that their slaves "are like horses and dogs." SR

4852 Re-arrangements during War Slavery
318 Re-enslavement Slavery

The clearest example of this occurs in "Raid," when Granny tells the slaves she has recovered from the Union Army to go "home," to their former masters, and they seem to obey her. SR

319 Religion Slavery
312 Resistance Slavery

To index passages in which slaves are described taking a stand of some kind, usually verbal, against their enslavement. The clearest instances of this involve Loosh and Granny on the Sartoris plantation. (More direct physical forms of resistance are indexed under "Fugitive" and "Revolt.") SR

298 Revolt Slavery

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