Keywords
Term ID | Vocabulary |
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Term | Description |
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294 | Cultural Issues | Slavery | Persistence over time | |
296 | Cultural Issues | Slavery | White anxiety |
For moments in the text which describe anxiety felt by white characters about the presence or possible actions of slaves, as when Loosh's sudden appearance and behavior make Bayard uncomfortable. SR |
297 | Cultural Issues | Slavery | Slaves vs poor whites | |
298 | Cultural Issues | Slavery | Revolt | |
299 | Cultural Issues | Slavery | Evil | |
300 | Cultural Issues | Slavery | Music | |
301 | Cultural Issues | Slavery | Nostalgia |
When black characters, especially ones who had been enslaved, seem nostalgic for the institution of slavery. Simon in Flags in the Dust is probably the most obvious instance of this. SR |
302 | Cultural Issues | Slavery | AANoSecondTerm | |
303 | Cultural Issues | Slavery | Biblical analogy | |
304 | Cultural Issues | Slavery | Quarters | |
305 | Cultural Issues | Slavery | African origins | |
306 | Cultural Issues | Slavery | Slave trading | |
307 | Cultural Issues | Slavery | Field slaves vs house slaves | |
308 | Cultural Issues | Slavery | Middle passage | |
309 | Cultural Issues | Slavery | Concubinage | |
310 | Cultural Issues | Slavery | Marriage | |
311 | Cultural Issues | Slavery | Naming slaves | |
312 | Cultural Issues | Slavery | Resistance |
To index passages in which slaves are described taking a stand of some kind, usually verbal, against their enslavement. The clearest instances of this involve Loosh and Granny on the Sartoris plantation. (More direct physical forms of resistance are indexed under "Fugitive" and "Revolt.") SR |
313 | Cultural Issues | Slavery | Family | |
314 | Cultural Issues | Slavery | Discipline |
For passages that depict or refer to any elements of the system by which slaves were policed or punished, like the "Patrollers" who patrolled roads after dark to prevent slaves from leaving plantations. SR |
315 | Cultural Issues | Slavery | Freedom | |
316 | Cultural Issues | Slavery | Minstrelsy |
Used to mark the passages where the representation of a slave or group of slaves draws on the representational conventions of blackface minstrelsy, where slaves were depicted as comically inferior to whites. The scene in "Retreat" where Ringo "hollers and moans and hollers again" for "Marse John" and "Bayard and Colonel and Marse John and Granny" is an instance of this. SR |
317 | Cultural Issues | Slavery | Abolition | |
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 |
319 | Cultural Issues | Slavery | Religion | |
320 | Cultural Issues | Slavery | Demographics |
For passages that include specific numbers about the people or places involved, as when Bayard says that before the War on Sundays, there would be 10 slaves at the service for every 1 white person. SR |
324 | Cultural Issues | Slavery | Guilt | |
325 | Cultural Issues | Slavery | Transhistorical | |
326 | Cultural Issues | Slavery | Curse | |
327 | Cultural Issues | Slavery | Southern curse | |
328 | Cultural Issues | Slavery | Amelioration |
To mark passages where white slave owners make some attempt to improve the condition of the slaves they own; the clearest example is way Buck and Buddy McCaslin treat their slaves. SR |
329 | Cultural Issues | Slavery | Indian slave-owners | |
330 | Cultural Issues | Slavery | Emancipation | |
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 |
2419 | Cultural Issues | Slavery | Local origins | |
2446 | Cultural Issues | Slavery | Courtship | |
2504 | Cultural Issues | Slavery | Imported |
To indicate when slaves began their lives (in either freedom or slavery) outside the U.S. The most obvious example are the slaves Sutpen brings with him from the Caribbean. SR |
2512 | Cultural Issues | Slavery | Growth of | |
3178 | Cultural Issues | Slavery | And progress | |
3743 | Cultural Issues | Slavery | Galley slave | |
4778 | Cultural Issues | Slavery | Humiliation | |
4814 | Cultural Issues | Slavery | Segregation of space | |
4852 | Cultural Issues | Slavery | Re-arrangements during War | |
4985 | Cultural Issues | Slavery | Housing | |
5564 | Cultural Issues | Slavery | As cause of Civil War | |
5609 | Cultural Issues | Slavery | Buying slaves | |
547 | Relationships | Social | Homosocial rivalry | |
597 | Relationships | Social | Adversarial | |
664 | Relationships | Social | Snobbery | |
752 | Relationships | Social | Neighbor | |
759 | Relationships | Social | Conflict | |
828 | Relationships | Social | Paternalism | |
1140 | Relationships | Social | Assailant-victim | |
1263 | Relationships | Social | Mentorship | |
1418 | Relationships | Social | Homosocial | |
1420 | Relationships | Social | Isolation |
This term describes moments when a character is isolated or ostracized from the wider social community. BR |
1831 | Relationships | Social | Fame | |
3302 | Relationships | Social | Homoerotic | |
3304 | Relationships | Social | Crowds | |
3764 | Relationships | Social | Fellow alumni of a college or university | |
3895 | Relationships | Social | Club | |
4865 | Relationships | Social | Coworker | |
4961 | Relationships | Social | Gang | |
4969 | Relationships | Social | Social organizations | |
571 | Themes and Motifs | Story-telling | Communal mythology | |
1131 | Themes and Motifs | Story-telling | Story-telling passim | |
1520 | Themes and Motifs | Story-telling | Audience response | |
1671 | Themes and Motifs | Story-telling | Old days | |
1806 | Themes and Motifs | Story-telling | Reminiscence | |
3062 | Themes and Motifs | Story-telling | Collaborative | |
4127 | Themes and Motifs | Story-telling | Retelling | |
4918 | Themes and Motifs | Story-telling | Explaining | |
4919 | Themes and Motifs | Story-telling | Hunting | |
5226 | Themes and Motifs | Story-telling | Deadpan | |
5232 | Themes and Motifs | Story-telling | Risque | |
5613 | Themes and Motifs | Story-telling | Gestures | |
641 | Aesthetics | Style | Neologism | |
966 | Aesthetics | Style | Character portrait | |
1267 | Aesthetics | Style | Unfinished sentence | |
1451 | Aesthetics | Style | Bricolage | |
1888 | Aesthetics | Style | Long sentence | |
1959 | Aesthetics | Style | Cubism | |
2507 | Aesthetics | Style | Present tense | |
3036 | Aesthetics | Style | Index | |
3037 | Aesthetics | Style | Long sentence passim | |
3510 | Aesthetics | Style | List | |
3538 | Aesthetics | Style | Numerous adjectives | |
5348 | Aesthetics | Style | Address to reader | |
1003 | Themes and Motifs | Supernatural | Insight | |
1883 | Themes and Motifs | Supernatural | Ghost | |
1947 | Themes and Motifs | Supernatural | Place | |
2369 | Themes and Motifs | Supernatural | Soul / Spirit | |
2373 | Themes and Motifs | Supernatural | Telepathy | |
2382 | Themes and Motifs | Supernatural | Phantom | |
2385 | Themes and Motifs | Supernatural | Spell | |
2608 | Themes and Motifs | Supernatural | Haunting | |
2612 | Themes and Motifs | Supernatural | Haunted house | |
2613 | Themes and Motifs | Supernatural | Sickness | |
2700 | Themes and Motifs | Supernatural | Eternity | |
2877 | Themes and Motifs | Supernatural | Signs / Omen |