Released 1927, the poignant children’s novel <em>Gay Neck</em> was wrten by an Indian immigrant who beme the first person of lor to w the Newbery Medal.
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- GAY-NECK BY DHAL GOPAL MERJI
- GAY-NECK: THE STORY OF A PIGEON OVERVIEW
- GAY NECK BY MERJI, 1927 (19 RULTS)
- GAY-NECK
GAY-NECK BY DHAL GOPAL MERJI
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Publishg Released 1927, the poignant children’s novel Gay Neck was wrten by an Indian immigrant who beme the first person of lor to w the Newbery Medal.
Pengu Young RearsIn 1927, the thor Dhan Gopal Merji published a slim novel, Gay Neck: The Story of a Pigeon, which follows the adventur of the tular Calcutta rrier bird, and the bird’s young owner, Ghond. Gay Neck (referrg to the bird’s Bengali name, Chra Griva) sympathetilly portrays a bond between a young boy and his beloved pigeon as they enunter hawks and tigers the jungl of Bengal and elu German fire France durg World War I.
When Gay Neck and Ghond return to India after their ary service, they are battle-srred. ” War leav Gay Neck fearful and unable to fly.
GAY-NECK: THE STORY OF A PIGEON OVERVIEW
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The magaze The Horn Book said of the novel: “Gay Neck is tly a rrier pigeon, a bearer of msag, and his msag are words of urage and love. ” The New Republic lled Gay Neck “a distguished ntributn, ” and praised Boris Artzybasheff’s illtratns as “altogether betiful. He’s wily nsired the first Indian Amerin who succsfully wrote for Amerin dienc, and Gay Neck was his fourth book for young, 90 years on, this once-celebrated book, which has remaed prt sce s publitn, is rarely mentned discsns of racial and ethnic diversy books for kids, as if Merji were some sort of aberratn rather than an early chapter of what uld have been.
“By all reckong, Gay Neck should have tablished a publishg trend, but didn’t for many plited reasons, ” she told Neck and Merji found unlikely succs nearly a century ago thanks to the llisn of a number of forc, both personal and historil—cludg Merji’s prodig talent, U. Creasg numbers the early s of the 20th century, formed lerary muni, and accumulated pal, and which the publishg of South Asian books for children flourished followg the mercial succs of Gay Neck. The rise and quiet disappearance of Gay Neck is not only a remr of how publishg succs wax and wan wh shifts groups’ social and enomic pal, but also how erasure hurts and reprentatn do, fact, matter to ntemporary narrativ about art.
Gay-Neck by Dhal Gopal MerjiGay-Neck is, hands down, the bt tle to w the Newbery Medal as of 2020. What is a gay-neck? What mak gay?
GAY NECK BY MERJI, 1927 (19 RULTS)
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GAY-NECK
The first book by an Indian Amerin to w a Newbery Award, Dhan Gopal Merji’s “Gay-Neck: The Story of a Pigeon” has been largely fotten today. * gay neck *
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Alas, Gay-Neck is not the bt book to w the Newbery Medal, as ’s simply a story about a pigeon named Gay-Neck. Gay-Neck reprents a major first for the Newbery, as thor Dhan Gopal Merji was the first nonwhe thor to w the award. But his heart was still India, his ire still directed at the Brish wouldn’t gus any of that om readg Gay-Neck.
Gay-Neck reads almost like a lerary llage, pullg chapters that read as animal hbandry stctn manuals, observatnal blogy, parabl, and war thrillers, slappg them all together wh ltle herence. On several ocsns, Merji abandons his narratn and wr om the perspective of Gay-Neck, whose hilarly overstuffed formalisms make him sound like Henry Higgs. Gay-Neck’s young owner (never named) lets his pigeons loose a storm to see if they n survive the weather.
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) He lets Gay-Neck and his mate out of their g ont of an eagle aerie, after scribg exactly how dangero eagl are to the birds.
I know I’m supposed to thk the kid lov his birds (he never shuts up about how much he lov his birds), but a lot of Gay-Neck reads as weirdly sadistic, and ’s not particularly all that said, the last chapter of the book is the most subtly betiful piece of wrg I’ve yet enuntered the Newbery wners. After flyg for the Brish WWI, Gay-Neck is sufferg om an animal sort of PTSD. To cure him of his fear, Gay-Neck’s owner and his olr iend, Ghond, mt travel through the jungle to a lamasery the mountas.