Reviewed by Romona Bennett
This week we present a book review. The novel Something Buried in the Yard by Michelle Asantewa is reviewed by Romona Bennett. This work is by a Guyanese author resident in the United Kingdom who has researched the Guyanese traditional religious ritual Kumfa (cumfa) and has based her novel on that ritual. Further, she has presented a fictionalised account of her own family background in Guyana. She does a similar thing with the biography of her mother, and has also written Mama Lou Tales stories that come out of that experience.
Romona Bennett is a lecturer at the University of Guyana in the Department of Language and Cultural Studies at the Faculty of Education and Humanities. Among her special interests is feminist literature. She has also undertaken research into Amerindian literature and has edited a collection of stories written in Arawak by Canon John P Bennett, distinguished lexicographer and authority on Amerindian languages (who happens to be her grandfather).