Keywords
Term ID | Vocabulary |
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Term | Description |
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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 | |
543 | Cultural Issues | Sexuality | Attractiveness | |
564 | Cultural Issues | Sexuality | Pregnant out of wedlock | |
582 | Cultural Issues | Sexuality | Illegitimacy | |
850 | Cultural Issues | Sexuality | Extra-marital | |
880 | Cultural Issues | Sexuality | Premarital | |
1284 | Cultural Issues | Sexuality | Appearance of | |
1337 | Cultural Issues | Sexuality | Frustration | |
1342 | Cultural Issues | Sexuality | Vicarious | |
1360 | Cultural Issues | Sexuality | Female | |
1422 | Cultural Issues | Sexuality | Unattractiveness | |
1434 | Cultural Issues | Sexuality | Prostitution | |
1565 | Cultural Issues | Sexuality | Desire | |
1580 | Cultural Issues | Sexuality | Interracial | |
1884 | Cultural Issues | Sexuality | Virginity | |
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 |
2174 | Cultural Issues | Sexuality | Conception/Conceiving a child | |
2298 | Cultural Issues | Sexuality | Promiscuity | |
2442 | Cultural Issues | Sexuality | Harassment | |
3040 | Cultural Issues | Sexuality | Birth control | |
3082 | Cultural Issues | Sexuality | Impotence | |
3087 | Cultural Issues | Sexuality | Voyeurism | |
3129 | Cultural Issues | Sexuality | First sexual encounter or experience |
There did not seem to be a keyword for one's first time having sex, so I added this. JBP |
3290 | Cultural Issues | Sexuality | Incest | |
3349 | Cultural Issues | Sexuality | Preventing or avoiding sex | |
3475 | Cultural Issues | Sexuality | Experience | |
3648 | Cultural Issues | Sexuality | Disgust with sex | |
3650 | Cultural Issues | Sexuality | Sexual passion | |
3753 | Cultural Issues | Sexuality | Fantasy | |
3807 | Cultural Issues | Sexuality | Sensuality | |
3900 | Cultural Issues | Sexuality | Sex and death | |
3975 | Cultural Issues | Sexuality | Orgasm | |
4180 | Cultural Issues | Sexuality | Predatory | |
4490 | Cultural Issues | Sexuality | Perverse | |
4493 | Cultural Issues | Sexuality | Pornography | |
4706 | Cultural Issues | Sexuality | Pregnancy | |
4896 | Cultural Issues | Sexuality | Manipulative | |
5005 | Cultural Issues | Sexuality | Nudity | |
5279 | Cultural Issues | Sexuality | Having sex | |
5349 | Cultural Issues | Sexuality | Adult-adolescent | |
5350 | Cultural Issues | Sexuality | Male vitality | |
5354 | Cultural Issues | Sexuality | Wonderful | |
5552 | Cultural Issues | Sexuality | Fear of sex | |
5604 | Cultural Issues | Sexuality | Fetishism | |
5610 | Cultural Issues | Sexuality | Racialized | |
858 | Relationships | Sexual | Adultery | |
2844 | Relationships | Sexual | Prostitute-Client | |
3811 | Relationships | Sexual | Desertion | |
4179 | Relationships | Sexual | Inappropriate | |
4523 | Relationships | Sexual | Extramarital | |
1579 | Cultural Issues | Segregation | Marriage | |
5341 | Cultural Issues | Segregation | Housing | |
5471 | Cultural Issues | Segregation | Educational | |
5473 | Cultural Issues | Segregation | Religious | |
5538 | Cultural Issues | Segregation | Economic | |
5563 | Cultural Issues | Segregation | Daily life | |
545 | Relationships | Romantic | Courtship | |
836 | Relationships | Romantic | Fiance |