gourd vine

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gourd vine - any vine of the family Cucurbitaceae that bears fruits with hard rinds

Cucurbitaceae, family Cucurbitaceae, gourd family - a family of herbaceous vines (such as cucumber or melon or squash or pumpkin)

buffalo gourd, calabazilla, Cucurbita foetidissima, Missouri gourd, prairie gourd vine, wild pumpkin, prairie gourd - perennial vine of dry parts of central and southwestern United States and Mexico having small hard mottled green inedible fruit

melon vine, melon - any of various fruit of cucurbitaceous vines including: muskmelons; watermelons; cantaloupes; cucumbers

Ecballium elaterium, exploding cucumber, squirting cucumber, touch-me-not - Mediterranean vine having oblong fruit that when ripe expels its seeds and juice violently when touched

bottle gourd, Lagenaria siceraria, calabash - Old World climbing plant with hard-shelled bottle-shaped gourds as fruits

balsam apple, Momordica balsamina - a tropical Old World flowering vine with red or orange warty fruit

balsam pear, Momordica charantia - tropical Old World vine with yellow-orange fruit

vine - a plant with a weak stem that derives support from climbing, twining, or creeping along a surface

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Ndi's Gods in the Ivory Tower and his poetry; Zora Neale Hurston's Jonah's Gourd Vine; Thomas Jing's Tale of an African Woman; and Emmanuel Fru Doh's Nomads: The Memoirs of a Southern Cameroonian.

The Repressed Expressed: Novel Perspectives on African and Black Diasporic Literature

"Dr Fatin Khurshid will underline the miraculous creation of camels, while Dr Amena Siddiq will focus on the scientific miracle of the gourd vine which Allah grew for Prophet Jonah (PBUH) after he was rescued from the darkness of the whale's belly."

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They use various critical approaches, from mobility studies to linguistics and analysis of letters, to consider well-known works anew and examine lesser-known works for the first time, including Dust Tracks on a Road, Jonah's Gourd Vine, Their Eyes Were Watching God, Seraph on the Suwanee, Tell My Horse, "Drenched in Light," Mules and Men, Mule Bone, her letters and short stories, her autobiography and journalism, and her contributions to folklore studies.

Zora Neale Hurston

She also published three novels in the 1930s: Jonah's Gourd Vine, Their Eyes Were Watching God (her most famous work, written when she was in Haiti), and Moses, Man of the Mountain.

Humanist profile: Zora Neale Hurston (1891-1960)

In the section on Jonah's Gourd Vine, King identifies the narrator (John Buddy Pearson) as an independent man on a "journey toward self-knowledge," following the traditional Bildungsroman format of a coming-of-age story (King 37).

Lovalerie King. The Cambridge Introduction to Zora Neale Hurston

On 15 July, Salisbury auctioneers Woolley & Wallis offered another fourteenth-century jar, this time of double gourd form and decorated in underglaze blue with a gourd vine whose fruit and tendrils issue from a single continuous undulating stem which rises from the base and encircles the body several times before flowering on the upper lobe (Fig.

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For example, the founding of Eatonville is fore-grounded in one of the chapters, and Patterson shows just how cleverly disguised Hurston's accounts are of that event, particularly those found in Their Eyes Were Watching God and Jonah's Gourd Vine.

Zora Neale Hurston and a History of Southern Life

For example, Meisenhelder's insightful chapters on Jonah's Gourd Vine and Seraph on the Suwanee argue that Hurston subtly associates the ostensibly secondary female protagonists in these novels with the withered gourd vine and wispy seraph of the titles to suggest that women are often victimized by their roles within conventional narratives of masculine self-assertion.

Hitting a Straight Lick with a Crooked Stick Race and Gender in the Work of Zora Neale Hurston

Among the rare treasures--stored in climate-controlled archives--are a history of Africa written in the 16th century (the oldest book in the collection), the original handwritten manuscripts of Richard Wright's Native Son and Zora Neale Hurston's first novel, Jonah's Gourd Vine.

SCHOMBURG CENTER CELEBRATES 75th ANNIVERSARY

Her first novel, Jonah's Gourd Vine (1934), was well received though some critics considered it uneven.