Keywords
| Term ID | Term |
Parent |
Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | ||
| 4814 | Segregation of space | Slavery | ||
| 284 | Self-emancipation | Slavery |
For textual moments in which an enslaved person or group acts upon the desire to be free, as when Loosh or unnamed groups of slaves take advantage of the proximity of the Union Army to leave the Sartoris, Sutpen and other plantations where they were enslaved. Most examples of self-emancipation occur during the Civil War, but it also applies the way Thucydus earns the money to buy himself from the McCaslins. SR |
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| 271 | Sex | Slavery | ||
| 306 | Slave trading | Slavery | ||
| 289 | Slaves vs masters | Slavery | ||
| 297 | Slaves vs poor whites | Slavery | ||
| 275 | Social value | Slavery | ||
| 327 | Southern curse | Slavery | ||
| 290 | Traditions | Slavery |
For instances of the patterns that became a recurring aspect of the social interactions between slaves and masters, as in the description of the young slaves approaching Sutpen's big house on Christmas morning in expectation of a gift. SR |
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| 325 | Transhistorical | Slavery | ||
| 277 | Violence | Slavery | ||
| 296 | White anxiety | Slavery |
For moments in the text which describe anxiety felt by white characters about the presence or possible actions of slaves, as when Loosh's sudden appearance and behavior make Bayard uncomfortable. SR |
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| 5499 | Appliance | Technology | ||
| 5542 | Atomic bomb | Technology |
| Term ID | Term |
Parent |
Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 597 | Adversarial | Social | ||
| 1140 | Assailant-victim | Social | ||
| 3895 | Club | Social | ||
| 759 | Conflict | Social | ||
| 4865 | Coworker | Social | ||
| 3304 | Crowds | Social | ||
| 1831 | Fame | Social | ||
| 3764 | Fellow alumni of a college or university | Social | ||
| 4961 | Gang | Social | ||
| 3302 | Homoerotic | Social | ||
| 1418 | Homosocial | Social | ||
| 547 | Homosocial rivalry | Social | ||
| 1420 | Isolation | Social |
This term describes moments when a character is isolated or ostracized from the wider social community. BR |
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| 1263 | Mentorship | Social | ||
| 752 | Neighbor | Social | ||
| 828 | Paternalism | Social | ||
| 664 | Snobbery | Social | ||
| 4969 | Social organizations | Social |
| Term ID | Term |
Parent |
Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1520 | Audience response | Story-telling | ||
| 3062 | Collaborative | Story-telling | ||
| 571 | Communal mythology | Story-telling | ||
| 5226 | Deadpan | Story-telling | ||
| 4918 | Explaining | Story-telling | ||
| 5740 | Family oral tradition | Story-telling | ||
| 5613 | Gestures | Story-telling | ||
| 4919 | Hunting | Story-telling | ||
| 1671 | Old days | Story-telling | ||
| 1806 | Reminiscence | Story-telling | ||
| 4127 | Retelling | Story-telling | ||
| 5232 | Risque | Story-telling | ||
| 1131 | Story-telling passim | Story-telling | ||
| 2700 | Eternity | Supernatural | ||
| 3246 | Folk customs | Supernatural | ||
| 3133 | Folklore | Supernatural | ||
| 1883 | Ghost | Supernatural | ||
| 2612 | Haunted house | Supernatural | ||
| 2608 | Haunting | Supernatural | ||
| 1003 | Insight | Supernatural | ||
| 5741 | Monster / monstrous | Supernatural | ||
| 2382 | Phantom | Supernatural | ||
| 1947 | Place | Supernatural | ||
| 2613 | Sickness | Supernatural | ||
| 2877 | Signs / Omen | Supernatural | ||
| 2369 | Soul / Spirit | Supernatural | ||
| 2385 | Spell | Supernatural | ||
| 3134 | Superstitions | Supernatural | ||
| 2373 | Telepathy | Supernatural | ||
| 5498 | Vision | Supernatural |
| Term ID | Term |
Parent |
Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5348 | Address to reader | Style | ||
| 1451 | Bricolage | Style | ||
| 966 | Character portrait | Style | ||
| 1959 | Cubism | Style | ||
| 3036 | Index | Style | ||
| 3510 | List | Style | ||
| 1888 | Long sentence | Style | ||
| 3037 | Long sentence passim | Style | ||
| 641 | Neologism | Style | ||
| 3538 | Numerous adjectives | Style | ||
| 2507 | Present tense | Style | ||
| 1267 | Unfinished sentence | Style | ||
| 2928 | Archetype | Symbolism |
I did not see archetype anywhere else in the keyword list, so I added it here under symbolism - for when a text refers to something clearly archetypal, like the tree in S&F. -JBP |
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| 1560 | Blood | Symbolism | ||
| 4887 | Cage | Symbolism | ||
| 2506 | Christian | Symbolism | ||
| 4152 | Cleansing power of water | Symbolism | ||
| 1715 | Created by characters | Symbolism | ||
| 4054 | Fire | Symbolism | ||
| 1315 | Freudian | Symbolism | ||
| 1893 | Hamsa | Symbolism | ||
| 4821 | Impermanence | Symbolism | ||
| 4904 | Rebirth | Symbolism | ||
| 3106 | Reflection | Symbolism |
Created for when a text makes explicit reference to mirrored reflection that has potential symbolic importance - created to capture Benjy's repeated references to a mirror in the library (of fire, of Caddy) that in the present day is gone (leaving only a door-like discoloration on the wall where it once had been). -JBP |
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| 5623 | Roman | Symbolism | ||
| 3758 | Sexual symbol | Symbolism | ||
| 1323 | Shadows | Symbolism | ||
| 4882 | Shared humanity | Symbolism | ||
| 2981 | Theatrical | Symbolism | ||
| 5625 | Time | Symbolism |