{"id":36,"date":"2023-01-24T14:26:07","date_gmt":"2023-01-24T14:26:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/iris.siue.edu\/briefs\/?p=36"},"modified":"2023-01-27T03:01:03","modified_gmt":"2023-01-27T03:01:03","slug":"keywords","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iris.siue.edu\/briefs\/2023\/01\/24\/keywords\/","title":{"rendered":"Keywords"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-group\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-group\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-28f84493 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:100%\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/iris.siue.edu\/briefs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/116\/2023\/01\/shutterstock_1337553635-300x146.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-56\" width=\"838\" height=\"408\" srcset=\"https:\/\/iris.siue.edu\/briefs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/116\/2023\/01\/shutterstock_1337553635-300x146.jpg 300w, https:\/\/iris.siue.edu\/briefs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/116\/2023\/01\/shutterstock_1337553635-1024x499.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/iris.siue.edu\/briefs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/116\/2023\/01\/shutterstock_1337553635-768x374.jpg 768w, https:\/\/iris.siue.edu\/briefs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/116\/2023\/01\/shutterstock_1337553635-1536x748.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/iris.siue.edu\/briefs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/116\/2023\/01\/shutterstock_1337553635-2048x998.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 838px) 100vw, 838px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>By Elizabeth Cali and Howard Rambsy II<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Double consciousness. Passing. Colorism. Intersectionality. Signifying. Afrofuturism. So many keywords and phrases drive conversations about African American fiction.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sometimes the words are derived from novels. On other occasions, essayists and scholars coin and apply terms based on observations from fiction or culture. And still on other occasions, we redefine a common term and consider alternative meanings in the context of black literary art.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Whatever the case, keywords are crucial for our considerations of African American fiction. For one, keywords illuminate important recurring tropes, literary techniques, and main points in novels. The presence and use of keywords make it possible for us to draw connections across multiple key texts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In addition, keywords are imperative for organizational purposes. Indexes and search engines make good use of keywords, facilitating the process of finding where terms and phrases appear throughout a large body of work<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Elizabeth Cali and Howard Rambsy II Double consciousness. Passing. Colorism. Intersectionality. Signifying. Afrofuturism. So many keywords and phrases drive conversations about African American fiction. Sometimes the words are derived from novels. On other occasions, essayists and scholars coin and apply terms based on observations from fiction or culture. And still on other occasions, we <a href=\"https:\/\/iris.siue.edu\/briefs\/2023\/01\/24\/keywords\/\" class=\"more-link\">&#8230;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Keywords<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":142,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sb_is_suggestion_mode":false,"_sb_show_suggestion_boards":false,"_sb_show_comment_boards":false,"_sb_suggestion_history":"","_sb_update_block_changes":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-keywords"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iris.siue.edu\/briefs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/iris.siue.edu\/briefs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/iris.siue.edu\/briefs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iris.siue.edu\/briefs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/142"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iris.siue.edu\/briefs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/iris.siue.edu\/briefs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":120,"href":"https:\/\/iris.siue.edu\/briefs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36\/revisions\/120"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iris.siue.edu\/briefs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iris.siue.edu\/briefs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iris.siue.edu\/briefs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}