Keywords
Term ID | Vocabulary |
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Term | Description |
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3900 | Cultural Issues | Sexuality | Sex and death | |
3650 | Cultural Issues | Sexuality | Sexual passion | |
1422 | Cultural Issues | Sexuality | Unattractiveness | |
1342 | Cultural Issues | Sexuality | Vicarious | |
1884 | Cultural Issues | Sexuality | Virginity | |
3087 | Cultural Issues | Sexuality | Voyeurism | |
5354 | Cultural Issues | Sexuality | Wonderful | |
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 | |
311 | Cultural Issues | Slavery | Naming slaves | |
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 |
282 | Cultural Issues | Slavery | Ownership |
For moments in the texts where owning slaves is evoked as a marker of status or wealth, as when Jason Compson connects his family pride to the fact that his ancestors owned slaves. SR |
294 | Cultural Issues | Slavery | Persistence over time | |
276 | Cultural Issues | Slavery | Purchase | |
304 | Cultural Issues | Slavery | Quarters | |
272 | Cultural Issues | Slavery | Racialism |
Used to note passages where enslaved blacks are described as members of an inferior species. The Indians in "Red Leaves," for example, say that their slaves "are like horses and dogs." SR |
4852 | Cultural Issues | Slavery | Re-arrangements during War | |
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 | |
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 |
298 | Cultural Issues | Slavery | Revolt | |
4814 | Cultural Issues | Slavery | Segregation of space | |
284 | Cultural Issues | Slavery | Self-emancipation |
For textual moments in which an enslaved person or group acts upon the desire to be free, as when Loosh or unnamed groups of slaves take advantage of the proximity of the Union Army to leave the Sartoris, Sutpen and other plantations where they were enslaved. Most examples of self-emancipation occur during the Civil War, but it also applies the way Thucydus earns the money to buy himself from the McCaslins. SR |
271 | Cultural Issues | Slavery | Sex | |
306 | Cultural Issues | Slavery | Slave trading | |
289 | Cultural Issues | Slavery | Slaves vs masters | |
297 | Cultural Issues | Slavery | Slaves vs poor whites | |
275 | Cultural Issues | Slavery | Social value | |
327 | Cultural Issues | Slavery | Southern curse | |
290 | Cultural Issues | Slavery | Traditions |
For instances of the patterns that became a recurring aspect of the social interactions between slaves and masters, as in the description of the young slaves approaching Sutpen's big house on Christmas morning in expectation of a gift. SR |
325 | Cultural Issues | Slavery | Transhistorical | |
277 | Cultural Issues | Slavery | Violence | |
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 |
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 |
1263 | Relationships | Social | Mentorship | |
752 | Relationships | Social | Neighbor | |
828 | Relationships | Social | Paternalism | |
664 | Relationships | Social | Snobbery | |
4969 | Relationships | Social | Social organizations | |
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 |