Product Description
Charlene Rajendran is one of many Malaysians living in Singapore, and she chooses not to own a car. This book chronicles her conversations with some of the 'driving philosophers' she has met on the hundreds of taxi rides she has taken. Ethnicity, gender, nationhood, religion and more are discoursed in short trips across the island state. Seemingly transient and anonymous, but never lonely, the space of a taxi might be the ideal place for both passenger and driver to ponder the world that is literally passing by. 'Taxi Tales on a Crooked Bridge' is a quirky, lively and often surprising book that also incorporates many photographs. There's no telling what bridges can be built along the way ... whether the journey is crooked or straight!
About the Author
Charlene Rajendran is a Malaysian educator, writer and theatre practitioner who currently teaches theatre at the Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. Her research interests are presently focussed on Southeast Asian culture, with particular emphasis on the work of Malaysian theatre director Krishen Jit. She is keen to examine the politics of difference in plural societies and the issues of identity in urban contexts. She has written texts for theatre, poetry and articles on art-making. Her first book was MANGOSTEEN CRUMBLE (1999, Team East) and this is her second.
