Keywords
Term ID | Vocabulary | Parent | Term | Description |
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1772 | Cultural Issues | Law | Eyewitness | |
1775 | Cultural Issues | Government | Corruption | |
1776 | Cultural Issues | Law | Clue | |
1778 | Cultural Issues | Law | Alibi | |
1780 | Cultural Issues | Religion | Sin | |
1787 | Cultural Issues | Clothes | Handbag | |
1791 | Cultural Issues | Gender | Traits |
Indicates when a particular quality is attributed to a character on the basis of their gender, such as when Miss Belle Worsham is described as possessing "some old, timeless, female affinity for blood and grief" (p. 261) in "Go Down, Moses." BR |
1793 | Cultural Issues | Mass Media | Advertising | |
1794 | Cultural Issues | Politics | Republicanism | |
1802 | Cultural Issues | Race | Integration | |
1808 | Cultural Issues | War | Scorched-earth policy |
This refers specifically to the events describing the destruction of Southern plantations, cities, railroads, etc., by Union forces during the Civil War. Frequently the narratives associate these actions directly with "Sherman," a hated name in Faulkner's South. |
1826 | Cultural Issues | Clothes | Beaver hat | |
1836 | Cultural Issues | Clothes | Hunting clothes | |
1845 | Cultural Issues | Gender | Bachelor | |
1846 | Cultural Issues | Education | Yale | |
1849 | Cultural Issues | Politics | City government | |
1853 | Cultural Issues | Race | Colorism | |
1884 | Cultural Issues | Sexuality | Virginity | |
1896 | Cultural Issues | Cultural Identity | North vs South | |
1899 | Cultural Issues | Clothes | Wedding dress | |
1909 | Cultural Issues | Crime | Fratricide | |
1929 | Cultural Issues | Religion | Institutional | |
1935 | Cultural Issues | Religion | Sabbath | |
1940 | Cultural Issues | Race | Stereotype: teeth | |
1945 | Cultural Issues | Gender | Inversion | |
1962 | Cultural Issues | War | Capture | |
1965 | Cultural Issues | Economy | Domestic | |
1971 | Cultural Issues | Religion | Piety | |
1974 | Cultural Issues | Law | Wanted poster |
Any paraphernalia used to publicly identify a possible criminal. The example used is from The Reivers, which refers to a "Bertillon chart or a police poster" (3). JB |
1978 | Cultural Issues | Entertainment | Baseball | |
1983 | Cultural Issues | Law | Firearms |
Any formal or informal practices regarding firearms that are functionally law, whether these practices are recognized in a court or not. For example, the assumption that no one in Maury Priest's workplace would bring a gun in the Reivers or the shop owner who refuses to sells Mink ammunition in the Mansion. This definition also includes legal violations of laws surrounding firearms. JB |
2000 | Cultural Issues | Clothes | Frock coat | |
2001 | Cultural Issues | Crime | Waistcoat | |
2002 | Cultural Issues | Clothes | Hat | |
2005 | Cultural Issues | Clothes | Green eyeshade | |
2007 | Cultural Issues | Class | Declasse |
Whenever a character has suffered a loss of social status, in particular those characters formerly connected with the prominent families of Jefferson. For example, Dan Grinnup who is Louis Grenier's family. J. Burgers |
2009 | Cultural Issues | Class | Homelessness | |
2035 | Cultural Issues | Government | Uncle Sam | |
2038 | Cultural Issues | Law | Informal arrangement |
Whenever there is an arrangement between two or multiple parties that is not strictly legal, but is adhered to as law. For example, Judge Steven's arrangement with Maury Priest over the actions of Ludus and Boon in the Reivers. This won't hold up in a court of law, but is adhered to by both parties. J. Burgers |
2042 | Cultural Issues | Race | Genealogy |
Any time a character's possible racial ancestries is germane to the text. J. Burgers |
2046 | Cultural Issues | Land-Use | Logging | |
2047 | Cultural Issues | Modernity | Changing customs | |
2054 | Cultural Issues | Hunting and Fishing | Marksmanship | |
2059 | Cultural Issues | Materialism | Status |
Any material acquisition that signifies a marker of status. Lucius Priest buying an automobile because Colonel Sartoris had one. J. Burgers. |
2060 | Cultural Issues | Progress | Electrification | |
2064 | Cultural Issues | Clothes | Driving gear | |
2097 | Cultural Issues | Clothes | Suit | |
2101 | Cultural Issues | War | Civil War | |
2106 | Cultural Issues | Religion | Methodism | |
2107 | Cultural Issues | Group Mentality | Social Shaming | |
2116 | Cultural Issues | Clothes | Coat | |
2133 | Cultural Issues | War | Displacement | |
2134 | Cultural Issues | War | Demotion | |
2137 | Cultural Issues | Religion | Challenge |
When characters actively set themselves at odds with a religious deity or institution, such as when Jewel in AILD gripes, "if there is a God what the hell is He for." EP |
2138 | Cultural Issues | Violence | Imagined | |
2141 | Cultural Issues | Clothes | Bathing suit | |
2142 | Cultural Issues | War | Spanish American War | |
2143 | Cultural Issues | Education | West Point | |
2154 | Cultural Issues | Sexuality | Puberty |
For when a text makes reference (perhaps implicitly) to puberty and/or sexual maturing. It was added for the moment in "Miss Zilphia Gant" when her mother makes her get naked and examines her body each month when she turns 13. |
2155 | Cultural Issues | Sexuality | Learning about |
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 |
2166 | Cultural Issues | Progress | New replacing old | |
2174 | Cultural Issues | Sexuality | Conception/Conceiving a child | |
2179 | Cultural Issues | Health and Illness | Poisoning | |
2199 | Cultural Issues | Ritual | Funeral arrangements | |
2202 | Cultural Issues | Slavery | Legacy after emancipation |
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 |
2209 | Cultural Issues | Ritual | Birthday | |
2210 | Cultural Issues | Food | Birthday cake | |
2213 | Cultural Issues | Entertainment | Traveling show |
Any kind of traveling show - the show in "The Sound and the Fury," for instance, or the circus in "Light in August." JBP |
2225 | Cultural Issues | Clothes | Boots | |
2226 | Cultural Issues | History | Carpetbaggers | |
2228 | Cultural Issues | Alcohol | Wine | |
2239 | Cultural Issues | Entertainment | Football | |
2241 | Cultural Issues | Migration | Intraregional migration |
This keyword is for characters who move out of Yoknapatawpha to another place inside the South - the "South" being defined in this instance as the former slave-holding states, including the 3 (Missouri, Kentucky and Maryland) that did not secede from the Union. The most typical instance of intraregional migration involves black characters who move to Memphis, like Versh in The Sound and the Fury. SR Also it can be used for characters who move into Yoknapatawpha from another place in the South. CR and JJ |
2242 | Cultural Issues | Migration | Movement to city |
This keyword refers to references or descriptions of characters who move from a less urban to a more urban environment, and is equally appropriate when someone moves from Frenchman's Bend to Jefferson and when someone from Jefferson moves to Memphis or New York. SR |
2247 | Cultural Issues | Labor | Industrial | |
2267 | Cultural Issues | Gender | Labor | |
2268 | Cultural Issues | Clothes | Nightgown | |
2275 | Cultural Issues | Education | Informal |
Any time a character "learns-by-doing" or receives some type of mentorship into a trade or profession. The specific example here is Mr Buffaloe teaching Boon how to operate a car. JB |
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 |
2277 | Cultural Issues | Law | Motor vehicle |
This keyword notes the creation and enforcement of motor vehicle laws. Notably the prohibition on automobiles by Colonel John Sartoris. JB |
2278 | Cultural Issues | Entertainment | Motoring |
Any time someone goes driving for recreational reasons. JB |
2279 | Cultural Issues | Technology | Telephone | |
2280 | Cultural Issues | Race | Naming |
The informal names given to people of another race, especially African-Americans. In particular, names like "Uncle" or "Mammy" stand out here. This is a bit distinct from "Naming slavery" as these practices post-date enslavement. JB |
2285 | Cultural Issues | Clothes | Motoring clothes |
Clothes that people wear when they go for a drive. JB |
2289 | Cultural Issues | Modernity | Speed |
Any time characters experience new speeds as a result of modernization. This could be speeds achieved by car, train, or flight, but also more abstract speeds like the speed of communication due to the telephone. The specific example is when Lucius Priest accidentally spits in his wife's face while motoring. JB |
2294 | Cultural Issues | Gender | Changing relationships |
Any time the changing norms and values surrounding gender are commented upon. JB |
2298 | Cultural Issues | Sexuality | Promiscuity | |
2301 | Cultural Issues | Technology | Car | |
2303 | Cultural Issues | Hunting and Fishing | Recreation | |
2311 | Cultural Issues | Class | Aristocratic posing | |
2316 | Cultural Issues | Clothes | Trousseau | |
2330 | Cultural Issues | Clothes | Confederate uniform | |
2335 | Cultural Issues | Crime | Looting | |
2338 | Cultural Issues | Class | Birthright | |
2347 | Cultural Issues | Religion | African American |
Religion with regard to either African-Americans or the African-American community. The particular example here is of Lucius Priest in the The Reivers who imagines a "Negro" sermonizing about a moral decision. R 61.8. JB |
2348 | Cultural Issues | Agriculture | Grist mill |
This is for any general discussion of grist mills as a farm implement. JB |
2362 | Cultural Issues | Clothes | Cloak | |
2363 | Cultural Issues | Clothes | Gown | |
2364 | Cultural Issues | Gender | Cross-dress | |
2388 | Cultural Issues | Cultural Identity | Puritan |