Keywords

Term ID Vocabularysort descending Parent Term Description
1249 Cultural Issues Law Legal authority
1254 Cultural Issues Alcohol Drunkenness
1257 Cultural Issues Nationality American
1258 Cultural Issues Class Status, low
1262 Cultural Issues Education Mentorship
1272 Cultural Issues Gender Masculine woman
1275 Cultural Issues Violence Implied shooting
1284 Cultural Issues Sexuality Appearance of
1285 Cultural Issues Entertainment Movies
1286 Cultural Issues Mass Media Magazines
1287 Cultural Issues Mass Media Movies
1288 Cultural Issues Age Childhood
1291 Cultural Issues Violence Child abuse
1295 Cultural Issues Health and Illness Anemia
1296 Cultural Issues Health and Illness Medical advice
1306 Cultural Issues Age Maturing
1309 Cultural Issues Progress Country to city

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

1313 Cultural Issues Economy Buying a house
1337 Cultural Issues Sexuality Frustration
1342 Cultural Issues Sexuality Vicarious
1346 Cultural Issues Race Imaginary Negro men
1353 Cultural Issues Food As substitute
1357 Cultural Issues Class Snopesism
1358 Cultural Issues Prejudice Socio-economic
1360 Cultural Issues Sexuality Female
1365 Cultural Issues Gender Maternal impulse
1368 Cultural Issues Economy Rural sales
1372 Cultural Issues Violence Accident
1374 Cultural Issues Clothes Underclothes, male
1375 Cultural Issues Clothes Underclothes, female
1377 Cultural Issues Health and Illness Injured
1378 Cultural Issues Health and Illness Nursing
1379 Cultural Issues Health and Illness Doctoring
1407 Cultural Issues Health and Illness Addiction
1409 Cultural Issues Race Self-abnegation
1414 Cultural Issues Race Racist child
1416 Cultural Issues Progress Cars
1419 Cultural Issues Migration Work

This is used for instances of characters relocating to a different state or country for reasons related to work and employment (i.e., economic migration). BR

1421 Cultural Issues Clothes Dress
1422 Cultural Issues Sexuality Unattractiveness
1424 Cultural Issues Crime Vigilantism

This denotes moments where characters appoint themselves to punish a crime (real or imagined). BR

1434 Cultural Issues Sexuality Prostitution
1435 Cultural Issues Progress Elevator
1442 Cultural Issues Health and Illness Fever
1446 Cultural Issues Race Division
1447 Cultural Issues Mass Media Fantasy

The fantasies generated in viewers, readers, or listeners by the mass media. What in "Dry September," in reference to Hollywood cinema, Faulkner calls "the silver dream." BR

1450 Cultural Issues Technology Elevator
1452 Cultural Issues Global Travel
1456 Cultural Issues War Unity

This keyword describes the way in which war calls upon disparate people to fight for the same ideal. The specific example this is based on is Southerners ultimately fighting in the United States army in later wars, but could also described the camaraderie between allied nations. Joost Burgers

1457 Cultural Issues Progress Infrastructure

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

1458 Cultural Issues War Pillage
1460 Cultural Issues War Strategy

Although technically strategy and tactics are two different elements of war, for the time being they have been collapsed into the same keyword unless there are really nuanced discussions of either in Faulkner. JB

1463 Cultural Issues Health and Illness Obesity
1464 Cultural Issues Government Usurpation
1465 Cultural Issues Health and Illness Indian medicine
1469 Cultural Issues Health and Illness Mute
1471 Cultural Issues Religion Bible
1477 Cultural Issues Gender Female intuition

This is any event in which women are able to "intuit" gender relationships. The case in point is in My Grandmother Millard where Granny intuits the budding relationship between Melisandre and Cousin Phillip. Although the projection is certainly Faulkner's, it ties into broader nineteenth and twentieth century patriarchal notions of feminine intuition. Joost Burgers

1478 Cultural Issues War Deprivation

Individuals or groups who have been deprived of resources and comfort. JB

1479 Cultural Issues Religion Amulet
1483 Cultural Issues Government Audit
1487 Cultural Issues War Spoils
1497 Cultural Issues Clothes Disguise
1499 Cultural Issues Race Stereotype mule
1500 Cultural Issues Race Black stereotype
1504 Cultural Issues Law Warrant
1505 Cultural Issues War Fog of War
1508 Cultural Issues War Insubordination
1513 Cultural Issues Race Clothes
1516 Cultural Issues Clothes Formal
1518 Cultural Issues Violence Interracial
1521 Cultural Issues Health and Illness Mental illness
1523 Cultural Issues Gender Patriarchy
1528 Cultural Issues Government Contract
1530 Cultural Issues Identity, Cultural Yankee
1534 Cultural Issues Law Regulation
1538 Cultural Issues Clothes Glove
1556 Cultural Issues History Civil War as point of reference
1564 Cultural Issues Race Shadow of Negro
1565 Cultural Issues Sexuality Desire
1567 Cultural Issues Nationality Old vs New World
1569 Cultural Issues Hunting and Fishing Misconduct
1574 Cultural Issues Region The West
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.

1579 Cultural Issues Segregation Marriage
1580 Cultural Issues Sexuality Interracial
1582 Cultural Issues Region North
1584 Cultural Issues Race Segregation
1585 Cultural Issues History Great Migration

This term is widely used by historians to refer to the movement of some six million African Americans out of the South and into the urban North and West between the First World War and the 1960s. Samuel Worsham Beauchamp, who in the 1930s leaves Yoknapatawpha to live in Chicago in "Go Down, Moses," is an example of a character who participates in the Great Migration. SR

1587 Cultural Issues Race Miscegenation
1588 Cultural Issues Violence Killing animal
1592 Cultural Issues Religion Totem
1600 Cultural Issues Race Native American

I added this in addition to the more specific Indian tribal identifications because I thought that it would be useful to have a larger umbrella term for users searching for Faulkner's Native American material. LW

1617 Cultural Issues Age Old age
1623 Cultural Issues Class Blood
1628 Cultural Issues Ritual Initiation
1629 Cultural Issues Hunting and Fishing Ritual
1632 Cultural Issues Ritual Funeral
1633 Cultural Issues Hunting and Fishing Annual
1634 Cultural Issues Land-Use Spiritual

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