Cultural Issues: Land-Use Cotton farming

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"A Name for the City", 202 (Event)
Environment: Place›Frontier
Actions: Movement›Horse
Cultural Issues: Land-Use›Cotton farming | Progress›Clearing the land | Slavery›Labor
Themes and Motifs: Naming›Place name | Story-telling›Communal mythology
Aesthetics: Recurring Episodes›Recurring event, intertextual
"Delta Autumn", 270 (Event)
Cultural Issues: Labor›Racialized | Land-Use›Cotton farming | Progress›Roads
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Over time
Relationships: Commercial›Landlord-tenant
"Lizards in Jamshyd’s Courtyard", 136 (Event)
Environment: Place›Plantation
Actions: Physical›Building
Cultural Issues: Land-Use›Cotton farming | Slavery›Labor
Themes and Motifs: Inheritance›Property | Objects›European in U.S. | Past›Yoknapatawpha founders
Aesthetics: Recurring Episodes›Old Frenchman's arrival
"Tomorrow", 94 (Event)
Environment: Domestic Space›Log house | Domestic Space›Porch | Natural›Hills | Time of Day›Morning
Actions: Emotional›Fury | Moral›Prohibiting | Movement›Driving | Verbal›Command
Cultural Issues: Agriculture›Soil quality | Gender›Masculinity | Land-Use›Corn farming | Land-Use›Cotton farming
Themes and Motifs: Objects›Car | Objects›Shotgun | Recurring Tropes›Endurance
Relationships: Familial›Father-son
Aesthetics: Description›Character portrait | Description›Eyes | Intertextuality›Embedded text, lettering
Absalom, Absalom!, 208 (Event)
Cultural Issues: Economy›Wealth | Land-Use›Cotton farming | Slavery›Miscegenation | Slavery›Violence
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Design | Time›Long passage of time
Relationships: Familial
Flags in the Dust, 137 (Event)
Cultural Issues: Economy›Tenantry|Share-cropping | Land-Use›Cotton farming
Flags in the Dust, 288 (Event)
Environment: Natural›Moon | Time of Year›Fall
Actions: Agricultural›Ginning cotton | Bodily›Singing | Economic›Share-cropping|Tenantry | Movement›Car | Work›Milling
Cultural Issues: History›Reconstruction | Labor›Farming | Land-Use›Cotton farming | Race›Stereotype mule
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Mules | Art›African American music
Relationships: Interspecies›Man-mule
Aesthetics: Allusion, Historical›Homer | Diction›Racist term | Tone›Overwrought
Go Down, Moses, 275 (Event)
Environment: Time of Year›Fall
Cultural Issues: Land-Use›Cotton farming
Aesthetics: Narrative›Pause | Narrative›Summary
Go Down, Moses, 324 (Event)
Environment: Natural›Delta rivers
Cultural Issues: Labor›Racialized | Land-Use›Cotton farming | Progress›Roads
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Over time
Relationships: Commercial›Landlord-tenant
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Flood imagery
Requiem for a Nun, 178 (Event)
Actions: Work›Farming
Cultural Issues: History›King Cotton | Land-Use›Cotton farming
Requiem for a Nun, 6 (Event)
Cultural Issues: Economy›Cotton planting | Land-Use›Cotton farming | Slavery›Local origins
Aesthetics: Recurring Episodes›First settlers arrive | Recurring Episodes›Old Frenchman's arrival
Requiem for a Nun, 82 (Event)
Actions: Agricultural›Planting
Cultural Issues: Land-Use›Cotton farming | Law›Frontier justice | Progress›Frontier to civilization | Slavery›Ownership
Themes and Motifs: Exile›Dispossession
Aesthetics: Allusion, Historical›Hare | Narrative›Parentheses | Typography/Orthography›Dash
The Reivers , 74 (Event)
Environment: Domestic Space›Boarding house | Domestic Space›Gallery | Time of Day›Night | Time of Day›Supper | Time of Year›May
Actions: Movement›Car | Verbal›Shouting
Cultural Issues: Food | Land-Use›Corn farming | Land-Use›Cotton farming | Progress›Cars
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Chickens/roosters
Relationships: Familial›Father-daughter
Aesthetics: Diction›African American vernacular dialect | Diction›Rural vernacular