Keywords

Vocabulary: Cultural Issues
Term ID Term Parentsort ascending Description
4584 Stereotype Superstitious Race
4589 Subverting a stereotype Race
4590 Inverting a stereotype Race
4636 Behaving/becoming "black" Race

This tag is used when a white character's appearance or behavior is associated with "blackness." Examples: when Jason Compson says in The Sound and the Fury that Miss Quentin's promiscuous behavior means she is "acting like a nigger" (181) or when Vardaman Bundren notes how his brother Cash's injured foot and his brother Jewel's burned back are turning black, "like a nigger's foot" or back (224). The trope isn't simply descriptive: it implies a loss of status, a threat to one's racial identity.

4756 Negro reporting white behavior Race
4762 Using a Negro as messenger Race
4816 Behaving "white" Race
4817 Segregated space Race
4962 White fear Race
4980 Negro-lover Race
5012 Aunt as term for black woman Race
5302 Economic basis of racism Race
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

5333 Racial resentment Race
5342 Uppitiness Race
5372 Aryan Race
5413 Black foresight Race

Any time a black character appears to have a premonition or intuition about how events will play out. I'm thinking her of Job in "Uncle Willy" who melancholically tags along even though he knows things will end badly. The same could be said for any number of Black servants who are forced to entertain their master's fancies. Dilsey is another example. JB

5415 Indistinguishable Race

Whenever a white and black character cannot be distinguished from one another, or when a white character looks black and vice versa. I'm thinking here of Uncle Willy and Secretary in the plane in "Uncle Willy", "Uncle Willy and Secretary side by side and looking exactly alike, I don't mean in the face but exactly alike two tines of a garden fork look exactly alike before they chop into the ground" (244). JB

5418 Black body Race

Whenever a Black body is described or there is a touch between a White body and Black body. For example, the unnamed narrator describing Job's body in "Uncle Willy": "he felt like a handful of scrawny dried sticks" (246).

5459 Loyal blacks Race
5599 Native American stereotype Race
765 Roads Progress
958 Clearing the land Progress
980 Trains Progress
1309 Country to city Progress

To capture the movement of people from the countryside to more urban areas, including moving from Frenchman's Bend to Jefferson, as Zilphia Gant's mother and so many Snopeses do. SR

1416 Cars Progress
1435 Elevator Progress
1457 Infrastructure Progress

This is a blanket term for any infrastructural development that happens. This is used for something that is either not covered, or when infrastructure in general improves. The specific example here is about Jefferson not being developed enough for it to have anything the Union Army might want. JB

1662 Historical Progress
1665 Technological Progress
1675 Religion Progress
1676 Education Progress
1677 Requirements Progress
1684 Ironies of Progress
1694 Frontier times Progress
1697 Building structure Progress
1703 Mail delivery Progress
1706 Renovations Progress
1708 Frontier to civilization Progress
2060 Electrification Progress
Vocabulary: Environment
Term ID Term Parentsort ascending Description
491 Store Public
493 Court Public
691 Road Public
1038 Town Square Public
1078 Blacksmith Public
1255 Highway Public
1394 Bus Depot/Bus stop Public
1399 Jail Public
1495 Supply house Public
1673 Pioneer settlement Public
1756 Filling Station Public
1839 Zoo Public
1942 Church Public
2014 Alley Public
2039 Street Public
2215 Golf course Public
2262 Store porch Public
2539 Bridge Public
2765 Sidewalk Public
2769 Train Station/Train depot Public
2806 Pasture Public

There is already an entry for Domestic Space -> Pasture. This refers to a pasture that is not part of a domestic space. JB

3314 Academic quad / quadrangle Public
3405 Post office Public
3493 Restaurant Public
3496 Store window Public
3500 Clock tower Public
3547 School Public
3580 Drawbridge Public
3623 Chapel Public
3869 Church steeple Public
3960 Railroad tracks Public
4043 Town hall Public
4092 Courtroom Public
4235 Bank Public
4253 Drugstore Public
4265 Cafe Public
4320 Art museum Public
4412 Barber shop Public
4430 Architecture Public
4497 Telegraph office Public
4524 Poolhall Public
4616 Lavatory Public
5200 Courthouse Public
5310 Airfield Public
5508 Park Public
Vocabulary: Themes and Motifs
Term ID Term Parentsort ascending Description
1056 Peace Psychological
1301 Paranoia Psychological
1310 Madness Psychological
1333 Obsession Psychological
1404 Terror Psychological
1774 Motivation Psychological
1807 Manipulation Psychological
1864 Will to endure Psychological
1921 Trauma Psychological
2206 Learning disability Psychological
2360 Unconscious Psychological
3426 Disembodiment Psychological
4224 Repression Psychological
4573 Denial Psychological
4619 Rationalizing Psychological

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