“…The struggle of black people inevitably appear in an intensely cultural form because the social formation in which their distinct political traditions are now manifest has constructed the arena of politics on ground overshadowed by centuries of metropolitan capitalist development, thereby denying them recognition as legitimate politics. Blacks conduct a class struggle in and through race. The BC of race and class cannot be empirically separated, the class character of black struggles is not a result of the fact that blacks are predominantly proletarian, thought this is true…”- (Frank Talk Staff Writers in ‘Azania Salutes Tosh’ – circa 1981)
front cover:
Tosh by Steve Gordon
back cover:
Kippie by Basil Breakey
How to Measure: Lessons from Amos Tutuola by Erin Honeycutt (CUTT PRESS at Hopscotch reading room, 2023)
Amos Tutuola (1920, Abeokuta – 1997, Ibadan) is a Nigerian writer. His novels are based on Yoruba mythology. When Erin Honeycutt first came across Tutuola first novel The Palm-Wine Drinkard, she was convinced that the nature of his lists were not flippant. Perhaps it was more her relationship to numerical facts within a narrative that made her feel convinced that there was a mapping taking place within the story. But the mapping does not simply chart a landscape geographically, it also oscillates between the quantifiable and the completely unquantifiable. It is a map of the possible ways to measure a novel. Tutuola has markers for time, lengths of time, distances traveled, lists of measurements from beginning to end: the more specific, the more incalculable. Honeycutt took notes as she read the map.
A5, 14 pages, Risograph printing, Staple bound, Softcover.