Jonah's Gourd Vine
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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]
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