Keywords

Vocabulary: Cultural Issues
Term ID Term Parent Description
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
4115 Ledger Economy
3361 Leftovers Food
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
5547 Legal advice Law
1249 Legal authority Law
1232 Legal document Law
4049 Legal fine Law
1011 Legal issue Law
5298 Legal ownership Law
3021 Legislative action Government
4474 Leprosy Health and Illness
2578 Liberal Politics

In The Reivers Lucius Priest defines the various positions of Conservative, Liberal, Republican, and Democrat in the following manner: "Like this: a Republican is a man who made his money; a Liberal is a man who inherited his; a Democrat is a barefoot Liberal in a cross-country race; a Conservative is a Republican who has learned to read and write." (109) Though, these positions are hardly set in stone it is important to note the distinct separation between political outlook and political party. JB
3766 Life after graduation Education
5601 Lighting Technology

For when a text makes explicit reference to electric lighting (as opposed to light from fires, candles, etc.) JBP
4907 Livestock Agriculture
2728 Local laws and regulations Government
3863 Local legend Hunting and Fishing
2419 Local origins Slavery
5566 Local political bosses Politics
2046 Logging Land-Use
2335 Looting Crime
5570 Loss of eyesight Health and Illness
2439 Loss of flora Land-Use
767 Loss of wilderness Land-Use
2438 Loss of wildlife Land-Use
948 Lost Cause Region
3031 Lost Cause Cultural Identity
5422 Lost Generation History
3775 Lower class / riff-raff / canaille Class
5459 Loyal blacks Race
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
5533 Lumber trade Agriculture
1718 Lynching Violence
3342 Machinery or mechanical references Materialism

For when a text makes explicit reference to machinery, mechanical issues, or the workings of related items -- e.g., Quentin's references in S&F to the wheels and gears of his watch (and his father's before him). JBP
1286 Magazines Mass Media
2994 Magic trick Entertainment
1703 Mail delivery Progress
5326 makeup Gender
4738 Making a case Law
968 Making whisky Crime
5626 Malaria Health and Illness
3983 Male body Gender
5779 Male control female sexuality Sexuality
3083 Male domination Gender
4643 Male gaze Gender
5262 Male rescuer Gender
4622 Male rivalry Gender
5350 Male vitality Sexuality
4648 Male-female Violence
3887 Mama's boy Gender
2963 Manhood Alcohol
4896 Manipulative Sexuality
4290 Mankind Identity, Cultural
969 Manslaughter Crime
286 Manumission Slavery
5745 Manure Agriculture
5308 Market day Economy
4875 Market gardening Agriculture
5569 Market-hunting Hunting and Fishing
2054 Marksmanship Hunting and Fishing
310 Marriage Slavery
323 Marriage Gender
1579 Marriage Segregation
847 Marshal Law
5476 Martyrdom Religion
1272 Masculine woman Gender
585 Masculinity Gender
2798 Mason Religion

Although the Masons are explicitly not a religion, as a secret fraternal order they do represent a belief system. I have placed them under religion for the time being, until we figure out a better place. JB
751 Masquerade Race

I created "Masquerade" to address Lucas’s dissimulation with Roth Edmonds, the inscrutability of his racial performance. JW
438 Mass Media (First level term)
2971 Matched team of horses or mules Agriculture
473 Materialism (First level term)
1365 Maternal impulse Gender
1306 Maturing Age
2924 Measles Health and Illness
2674 Meat Food
1296 Medical advice Health and Illness
4266 Medical treatment Health and Illness
3254 Medicine Health and Illness
4498 Medicine aspirin Health and Illness
3680 Medicine camphor Health and Illness
638 Men vs women Gender
529 Menial Labor
3945 Menstruation / menstrual cycle Gender
1521 Mental illness Health and Illness
721 Mental limitations Health and Illness
1262 Mentorship Education
1108 Mercenary War
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
2106 Methodism Religion
2861 Mexican War
5351 Mexican Rebellion History
624 Middle Class
4420 Middle age Age
308 Middle passage Slavery
1089 Migration (First level term)
2682 Military Clothes
4228 Military awards War
4226 Military education Education

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