Keywords

Term ID Vocabulary Parentsort descending Term Description
4190 Aesthetics Figures of Speech Native American
4207 Aesthetics Figures of Speech Musical imagery
4348 Aesthetics Figures of Speech Gambling imagery
4372 Aesthetics Figures of Speech Weaponry imagery
4373 Aesthetics Figures of Speech Food and drink imagery
4443 Aesthetics Figures of Speech Chess
4446 Aesthetics Figures of Speech Dehumanizing

Narrative/narrator uses a metaphor that dehumanizes a character. Popeye "had that vicious depthless quality of stamped tin," in Sanctuary.
4960 Aesthetics Figures of Speech Space program
5615 Aesthetics Figures of Speech Train / locomotive imagery
5616 Aesthetics Figures of Speech Animals compared to objects
784 Cultural Issues Food Cannibalism
865 Cultural Issues Food Breakfast
1353 Cultural Issues Food As substitute
1668 Cultural Issues Food Community
2210 Cultural Issues Food Birthday cake
2440 Cultural Issues Food Ice-cream
2475 Cultural Issues Food Candy
2673 Cultural Issues Food Bread
2674 Cultural Issues Food Meat
3069 Cultural Issues Food Eggs
3361 Cultural Issues Food Leftovers
3745 Cultural Issues Food Pumpkin pie
3859 Cultural Issues Food Peanut
3929 Cultural Issues Food Coffee
3940 Cultural Issues Food Cake
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
4185 Cultural Issues Food Bear meat
4352 Cultural Issues Food Sugar
4541 Cultural Issues Food Banana
4542 Cultural Issues Food Ham
4781 Cultural Issues Food Soda
4864 Cultural Issues Food Scarcity
4992 Cultural Issues Food Dependable
5143 Cultural Issues Food Crackers
5172 Cultural Issues Food Pie
5179 Cultural Issues Food Peas
5315 Cultural Issues Food Gum

Chewing gum
5493 Cultural Issues Food Coca-Cola
5512 Cultural Issues Food Animal crackers
5618 Cultural Issues Food Brunswick stew
5642 Cultural Issues Food Sandwich
5653 Cultural Issues Food Milk
5677 Cultural Issues Food Biscuits
5678 Cultural Issues Food Greens
5679 Cultural Issues Food Buttermilk
1298 Relationships Friendship Childhood friends
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
2361 Relationships Friendship Male-male attraction
2590 Relationships Friendship Male-male relationship
2782 Relationships Friendship Interracial
2799 Relationships Friendship Adult friends
2892 Relationships Friendship Adult-child
3274 Relationships Friendship College roommate
3306 Relationships Friendship College companions / classmates
3557 Relationships Friendship School classmates
1345 Themes and Motifs Futility When will it stop
3162 Themes and Motifs Futility Failure to defend honor
3172 Themes and Motifs Futility Illusion of success or victory
4218 Themes and Motifs Futility Nothing to do

"There's nothing else I can do now," Elly thinks (207). Reaching a point where no further options or ways forward can be imagined.
4641 Themes and Motifs Futility Inability
5023 Themes and Motifs Futility In battle
322 Cultural Issues Gender Reproduction
323 Cultural Issues Gender Marriage
561 Cultural Issues Gender Women
585 Cultural Issues Gender Masculinity
638 Cultural Issues Gender Men vs women
639 Cultural Issues Gender Femininity
662 Cultural Issues Gender Chivalry
807 Cultural Issues Gender War
924 Cultural Issues Gender Southern woman
1272 Cultural Issues Gender Masculine woman
1365 Cultural Issues Gender Maternal impulse
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
1523 Cultural Issues Gender Patriarchy
1640 Cultural Issues Gender Body
1643 Cultural Issues Gender Clothing
1655 Cultural Issues Gender Widow
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
1845 Cultural Issues Gender Bachelor
1945 Cultural Issues Gender Inversion
2267 Cultural Issues Gender Labor
2294 Cultural Issues Gender Changing relationships

Any time the changing norms and values surrounding gender are commented upon. JB
2364 Cultural Issues Gender Cross-dress
2619 Cultural Issues Gender Transsexuality
2816 Cultural Issues Gender Sexual Harassment
2842 Cultural Issues Gender Separate spaces

Not the most refined word for this concept, but essentially different spaces in which women and men can move. This is not like segregation or separate spheres, rather existing social norms that prevent, generally women, from entering certain spaces like hotels, saloons, bootleg joints, etc. JB
2872 Cultural Issues Gender All-male space
2873 Cultural Issues Gender Work
3052 Cultural Issues Gender Idealization
3083 Cultural Issues Gender Male domination
3458 Cultural Issues Gender Taste
3481 Cultural Issues Gender Female stereotype
3622 Cultural Issues Gender Lady
3688 Cultural Issues Gender Chauvinism / Misogyny
3730 Cultural Issues Gender Sexual double standard

For when a text makes references to the double standards between men and women; also can apply to double standard for women - Madonna/whore (or virgin/whore). Added for when Mrs Compson posits that a woman is either a lady or not (referring to Caddy and her dishonor). JBP
3748 Cultural Issues Gender Bitch
3829 Cultural Issues Gender Chastity / purity
3887 Cultural Issues Gender Mama's boy
3888 Cultural Issues Gender New Woman
3939 Cultural Issues Gender Stereotype librarian / school teacher

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