Florens
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Florens is a young enslaved girl and central narrator in Toni Morrison’s novel "A Mercy," whose perspective reveals the brutal realities of early colonial America.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Florens canonical | 6 |
Statements (39)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
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literary character ⓘ novel character ⓘ |
| ageStatus | young ⓘ |
| appearsInWork | A Mercy ⓘ |
| createdBy | Toni Morrison ⓘ |
| ethnoracialStatus | African-descended enslaved person ⓘ |
| fictionalUniverse | A Mercy universe ⓘ |
| firstPublicationContext |
A Mercy
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surface form:
A Mercy (2008 novel)
|
| gender | female ⓘ |
| journey | travels alone to find the blacksmith ⓘ |
| languageStyle | oral, confessional voice ⓘ |
| literarySignificance | primary lens through which readers experience A Mercy ⓘ |
| medium | prose fiction ⓘ |
| narrativeFunction | reveals brutal realities of early colonial America ⓘ |
| narrativePerspective | first-person ⓘ |
| narrativeRole | central narrator ⓘ |
| nationalContext | early colonial America ⓘ |
| ownedBy | Jacob Vaark ⓘ |
| psychologicalTrait |
deeply affected by maternal abandonment
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increasing jealousy and obsession ⓘ yearning for love and belonging ⓘ |
| relationship |
daughter of an unnamed enslaved mother
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given away by her mother to Jacob Vaark ⓘ lives with Lina ⓘ lives with Rebekka Vaark ⓘ lives with Sorrow ⓘ |
| residesAt | Jacob Vaark’s farm ⓘ |
| romanticAttachment | the free Black blacksmith ⓘ |
| socialStatus | enslaved girl ⓘ |
| symbolicRole |
embodiment of the trauma of New World slavery
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voice of the enslaved in early America ⓘ |
| themeAssociation |
colonial violence
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female subjectivity ⓘ mother–daughter separation ⓘ race and otherness ⓘ religion and superstition ⓘ slavery ⓘ |
| timePeriod | late 17th century ⓘ |
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.