Keywords
| Term ID | Term |
Parent |
Description | |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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. |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 298 | Revolt | Slavery |