Keywords

Vocabulary: Cultural Issues
Term ID Term Parentsort descending 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

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
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

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

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

5499 Appliance Technology
5542 Atomic bomb Technology
Vocabulary: Relationships
Term ID Term Parentsort descending 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
Also used this term when a person intentionally isolates him/herself from the larger community. JJ

1263 Mentorship Social
752 Neighbor Social
828 Paternalism Social
664 Snobbery Social
4969 Social organizations Social
Vocabulary: Themes and Motifs
Term ID Term Parentsort descending 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
Vocabulary: Aesthetics
Term ID Term Parentsort descending 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

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

5623 Roman Symbolism
3758 Sexual symbol Symbolism
1323 Shadows Symbolism
4882 Shared humanity Symbolism
2981 Theatrical Symbolism
5625 Time Symbolism

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