Keywords

Term ID Vocabulary Parent Termsort descending Description
2583 Cultural Issues Alcohol Race

These are racial issues specifically related to alcohol. For example, Minnie in The Reivers declines to drink with too many white people at once (113). There are also other issues around the production, sale, and consumption of alcohol that cut across racial lines. I thought it was more appropriate to place this here rather than in the race category within cultural issues, as that is already getting full, and becomes the alcohol predominates here. JB
5416 Cultural Issues Technology Race

Whenever someone has a different interaction with technology because of their race. This is usually a Black character who is ignorant of modernity. In this example, it is Job in "Uncle Willy" who doesn't know how to use a telephone.
4174 Cultural Issues Food Race

This keyword should be used when food is connected to race. Examples could include when certain foods are coded racially or when food consumption is related to racial identity. CR
5003 Cultural Issues Religion Race
2463 Actions Physical Race
994 Environment Domestic Space Race
245 Cultural Issues (First level term) Race
3527 Cultural Issues Race Race as a form of behavior
1719 Themes and Motifs Animals Race horse
1631 Relationships Friendship Racial

I did not create this definition, but I read this as friendships that occur by virtue of people being of the same race. For example, Ned and Ephum in the Reivers are surrounded by white people and form friendship. Not sure how this term is meant to be used though. JB
4836 Themes and Motifs Absence/Loss Racial
984 Environment Domestic Space Racial confusion
3525 Cultural Issues Race Racial consciousness
3526 Cultural Issues Race Racial identity
5333 Cultural Issues Race Racial resentment
4880 Cultural Issues Group Mentality Racial solidarity
1577 Cultural Issues Race Racial spheres

TMT: I created this keyword to highlight the differences between the young woman's racial experience in the North and the South, where certain kinds of labor are done by certain races--in this case, taking in laundry by black women.
272 Cultural Issues Slavery Racialism

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
4664 Environment Atmospheric Racialized
4242 Themes and Motifs Appearance Racialized
5282 Cultural Issues Crime Racialized
974 Cultural Issues Labor Racialized
5610 Cultural Issues Sexuality Racialized
5105 Cultural Issues Progress Racialized
3705 Cultural Issues Alcohol Racial|Regional stereotypes about drinking
1941 Actions Movement Racing
512 Cultural Issues Prejudice Racism
1414 Cultural Issues Race Racist child
705 Aesthetics Diction Racist term
1625 Actions Hunting Racoon hunting
3200 Cultural Issues Entertainment Radio
708 Cultural Issues Mass Media Radio
4316 Cultural Issues Technology Radio
3389 Actions Emotional Rage
4402 Cultural Issues Clothes Rags
5214 Actions Military Raid
2740 Actions Violent Raiding
2233 Environment Place Railroad
1005 Environment Place Railroad log line
3960 Environment Public Railroad tracks
5343 Actions Work Railroad workers
2091 Aesthetics Figures of Speech Rain
2481 Environment Olfactory Rain
702 Environment Weather Rain
3071 Environment Auditory Rain on roof
5634 Cultural Issues Clothes Raincoat
2792 Aesthetics Allusion, Historical Rainey, Paul
2840 Aesthetics Allusion, Historical Rainey, Paul DELETE
5428 Actions Military Raising troops
5237 Actions Agricultural Raising|shipping cattle
2737 Themes and Motifs Objects Rake
2828 Aesthetics Allusion, Geographical Raleigh, Tennessee
1738 Actions Movement Random
526 Cultural Issues Violence Rape
4634 Cultural Issues Crime Rape
2632 Aesthetics Figures of Speech Rape
1535 Themes and Motifs Animals Rat
2254 Actions Moral Rationalization
4619 Themes and Motifs Psychological Rationalizing
4923 Actions Economic Rationing
4114 Aesthetics Figures of Speech Rats
588 Themes and Motifs Objects Razor
4852 Cultural Issues Slavery Re-arrangements during War
318 Cultural Issues Slavery Re-enslavement

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
4712 Relationships Marital Re-marriage
5431 Themes and Motifs Character Reactionary
1510 Actions Physical Reading
2176 Actions Perceptual Reading / Researching
3631 Actions Verbal Reading aloud
4906 Actions Hunting Reading landscape
2626 Themes and Motifs Recurring Tropes Reality
1811 Actions Mental Realization
3725 Actions Emotional Reassurance
2628 Actions Verbal Rebel yell
4249 Actions Emotional Rebelliousness
4904 Aesthetics Symbolism Rebirth
5322 Cultural Issues Religion Rebirth

Rebirth as either a goal or a result of Christianity. In this particular case, Uncle Willy's church wants him to be reborn in "Uncle Willy". (232
4467 Actions Communication Receiving mail
4234 Actions Economic Receiving money
1814 Themes and Motifs Past Recent past

For events acknowledging recent occurrences that may or may not affect the present. (Added for end of "Lion," with Boon oblivious to events in the recent past while the narrator is thinking about them.)
1162 Actions Legal Recess
3482 Cultural Issues Entertainment Recital
2235 Themes and Motifs Character Recklessness
4245 Actions Bodily Recoiling
4151 Relationships Marital Reconciliation
4766 Actions Military Reconnaissance
2015 Aesthetics Narrative Reconstructed
1652 Cultural Issues Region Reconstruction
2756 Cultural Issues War Reconstruction
3029 Cultural Issues History Reconstruction
1679 Actions Legal Record keeping
1297 Themes and Motifs Money Recovery
829 Actions Emotional Recovery
2946 Themes and Motifs Recurring Tropes Recovery
2276 Cultural Issues Land-Use Recreation

Any time a natural space becomes a place of leisure or recreation. This includes the "motordome" behind Mr Buffaloe's house, as well has land-use for picnics, campaign rallies, and fairs. JB
2303 Cultural Issues Hunting and Fishing Recreation
3635 Cultural Issues War Recuperation
5239 Cultural Issues Health and Illness Recuperation
412 Aesthetics (First level term) Recurring Episodes
2245 Aesthetics Recurring Episodes Recurring event, intertextual

When Faulkner in one text refers to or re-writes an event that also occurs in other text(s), for example the account of Miss Quentin climbing down the pear tree (in The Sound and the Fury) or the rain pipe (as the same event has it in the "Appendix" and The Mansion. SR

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