Keywords

Term ID Vocabulary Parentsort ascending Term Description
1883 Themes and Motifs Supernatural Ghost
2612 Themes and Motifs Supernatural Haunted house
2608 Themes and Motifs Supernatural Haunting
1003 Themes and Motifs Supernatural Insight
2382 Themes and Motifs Supernatural Phantom
1947 Themes and Motifs Supernatural Place
2613 Themes and Motifs Supernatural Sickness
2877 Themes and Motifs Supernatural Signs / Omen
2369 Themes and Motifs Supernatural Soul / Spirit
2385 Themes and Motifs Supernatural Spell
3134 Themes and Motifs Supernatural Superstitions
2373 Themes and Motifs Supernatural Telepathy
5498 Themes and Motifs Supernatural Vision
5348 Aesthetics Style Address to reader
1451 Aesthetics Style Bricolage
966 Aesthetics Style Character portrait
1959 Aesthetics Style Cubism
3036 Aesthetics Style Index
3510 Aesthetics Style List
1888 Aesthetics Style Long sentence
3037 Aesthetics Style Long sentence passim
641 Aesthetics Style Neologism
3538 Aesthetics Style Numerous adjectives
2507 Aesthetics Style Present tense
1267 Aesthetics Style Unfinished sentence
1520 Themes and Motifs Story-telling Audience response
3062 Themes and Motifs Story-telling Collaborative
571 Themes and Motifs Story-telling Communal mythology
5226 Themes and Motifs Story-telling Deadpan
4918 Themes and Motifs Story-telling Explaining
5613 Themes and Motifs Story-telling Gestures
4919 Themes and Motifs Story-telling Hunting
1671 Themes and Motifs Story-telling Old days
1806 Themes and Motifs Story-telling Reminiscence
4127 Themes and Motifs Story-telling Retelling
5232 Themes and Motifs Story-telling Risque
1131 Themes and Motifs Story-telling Story-telling passim
597 Relationships Social Adversarial
1140 Relationships Social Assailant-victim
3895 Relationships Social Club
759 Relationships Social Conflict
4865 Relationships Social Coworker
3304 Relationships Social Crowds
1831 Relationships Social Fame
3764 Relationships Social Fellow alumni of a college or university
4961 Relationships Social Gang
3302 Relationships Social Homoerotic
1418 Relationships Social Homosocial
547 Relationships Social Homosocial rivalry
1420 Relationships Social Isolation

This term describes moments when a character is isolated or ostracized from the wider social community. BR
Also used this term when a person intentionally isolates him/herself from the larger community. JJ
1263 Relationships Social Mentorship
752 Relationships Social Neighbor
828 Relationships Social Paternalism
664 Relationships Social Snobbery
4969 Relationships Social Social organizations
302 Cultural Issues Slavery AANoSecondTerm
317 Cultural Issues Slavery Abolition
305 Cultural Issues Slavery African origins
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
3178 Cultural Issues Slavery And progress
5564 Cultural Issues Slavery As cause of Civil War
303 Cultural Issues Slavery Biblical analogy
293 Cultural Issues Slavery Biblical curse
288 Cultural Issues Slavery Big house vs quarters
5609 Cultural Issues Slavery Buying slaves
292 Cultural Issues Slavery Civil War
287 Cultural Issues Slavery Commodity
309 Cultural Issues Slavery Concubinage
2446 Cultural Issues Slavery Courtship
326 Cultural Issues Slavery Curse
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
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
274 Cultural Issues Slavery Domestic labor
330 Cultural Issues Slavery Emancipation
291 Cultural Issues Slavery Etiquette
299 Cultural Issues Slavery Evil
313 Cultural Issues Slavery Family
307 Cultural Issues Slavery Field slaves vs house slaves
280 Cultural Issues Slavery Forced migration
315 Cultural Issues Slavery Freedom
283 Cultural Issues Slavery Fugitive
3743 Cultural Issues Slavery Galley slave
2512 Cultural Issues Slavery Growth of
324 Cultural Issues Slavery Guilt
4985 Cultural Issues Slavery Housing
4778 Cultural Issues Slavery Humiliation
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
329 Cultural Issues Slavery Indian slave-owners
278 Cultural Issues Slavery Interracial violence
273 Cultural Issues Slavery Labor
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
285 Cultural Issues Slavery Loyalty

To note passages in which enslaved people are described - or describe themselves - as loyal to the family that owns them, as when Simon describes how happy all the Sartoris slaves were at the birth of their master's son. SR
286 Cultural Issues Slavery Manumission
310 Cultural Issues Slavery Marriage
281 Cultural Issues Slavery Metaphorical

Used to flag the passages in which a narrator or a non-enslaved character uses "slavery" metaphorically, to describe something else. Lucas Burch, for instance, complains that his job at the planing mill has him "slaving all day." SR
308 Cultural Issues Slavery Middle passage
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
279 Cultural Issues Slavery Miscegenation
300 Cultural Issues Slavery Music

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