Jonah's Gourd Vine

Jonah's Gourd Vine is the 1934 debut novel by Zora Neale Hurston.[1] The novel is a semi-autobiographical novel describing the migration of characters, similar to her parents, from Alabama to Hurston's home of Eatonville, Florida.[1]

It took Hurston only three to four months to write the novel.[2] The novel's title derives from Jonah 4.6-10, using the gourd vine from the passage as a metaphor for the main character of the novel, John Peterson, a philandering preacher.[2][3]

The novel explores the dysfunction of marriage as it precedes over multi-generational African American communities.[4] The novel also explores other themes common to African American literature, include escapism,[5] and racial politics.[6]

References

  1. 1 2 "Plot Summaries". Zora Neale Hurston Digital Archive. Center for Humanities and Digital Research at University of Central Florida.
  2. 1 2 "Jonah's Gourd Vine (novel, 1934)". Anacostia Museum, Smithsonian Institution. Retrieved 2016-04-07.
  3. ↑ Ciuba, Gary (2000-01-01). "The Worm against the Word: The Hermeneutical Challenge in Hurston's Jonah's Gourd Vine". African American Review. 34 (1): 119–133. doi:10.2307/2901188. JSTOR 2901188.
  4. ↑ Kanthak, John F. (2005-01-01). "Legacy of Dysfunction: Family Systems in Zora Neale Hurston's Jonah's Gourd Vine". Journal of Modern Literature. 28 (2): 113–129. doi:10.1353/jml.2005.0029. ISSN 1529-1464.
  5. ↑ Fernandes, Lilly (2013-04-24). "Escape Motif in Zora Neale Hurston's "Jonah's Gourd Vine"". English Language and Literature Studies. 3 (2): 50. doi:10.5539/ells.v3n2p50. ISSN 1925-4776.
  6. ↑ Steverson, Delia Dennise (2015-07-03). "Zora Neale Hurston's Racial Politics in JONAH'S GOURD VINE". The Explicator. 73 (3): 226–228. doi:10.1080/00144940.2015.1065223. ISSN 0014-4940.
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