Birthday Deathday and Other Stories is a 1985 collection of twelve short stories by Padma Perera, written and published from 1974 onwards. Eight provide vignettes of upper-class family life in India, while four others deal with cultural displacement and exile in North America.[1]
Individual stories first appeared in The New Yorker (The Schoolmaster, Too Late For Anger, Dr. Salaam, Mauna, and Afternoon Of The House),[2]Helicon Nine (Spaces Of Decision),[3]The Southern Review, (Birthday Deathday,[4] and Eknath (Pilgrimage)[5]), and The Illustrated Weekly of India (Appa-mam, and Monologue For Foreigners).[6]
Nine stories (Birthday Deathday, The Schoolmaster, Letter, Appa-mam, Monologue For Foreigners, Too Late For Anger, Eknath's Pilgrimage, Dr. Salaam, and Mauna) were published in Dr. Salaam & Other Stories Of India, 1978, USA, Capra PressISBN9780884960898, with the twelve stories being published as Birthday Deathday and Other Stories, 1985, England, The Women's PressISBN9780704328747.
^Holmström, Lakshmi; J. H. E. Paine; Corinne H. Dale (1999). "Flight and Arrival: A Study of Padma Hejmadi's Short Story, "Weather Report"". Women on the Edge: Ethnicity and Gender in Short Stories by American Women. Psychology Press. pp. 53–. ISBN978-0-8153-3247-3.
^"Padma Perera: All Work". The New Yorker. Retrieved 19 December 2019.
^"Spaces Of Decision, South India, 1890s to 1970s" (PDF). Helicon Nine: A Journal of Women's Arts and Letters (7): 42–51. 1982. Retrieved 19 December 2019.
^Padma Perea (1972). "Birthday Deathday". The Southern Review. Louisiana State University Press. p. 635. Retrieved 19 December 2019.
^Padma Perea (1974). "Eknath". The Southern Review. Louisiana State University Press. p. 746. Retrieved 19 December 2019.
^Padma Perera. Birthday Deathday and Other Stories: Acknowledgements. The Women's Press.
^Liz Heron (22 November 1985). "Fiction: Birthday Deathday, and Other Stories". {{cite magazine}}: Cite magazine requires |magazine= (help)
^Makarand Paranjape. "Distinguishing Themselves: New Fiction by Expatriate Indian Women". World Literature Today. Vol. 65, no. 1. University of Oklahoma. pp. 72–74. JSTOR 40146126.
^Page Edwards Jr. (November 1979). . Library Journal. 104 (19). Archived from the original on 2019-12-19. Retrieved 19 December 2019.
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