![]() (1 ) These commentaries reveal an ongoing debate in the field of African literatures about whether they are or should be primarily oriented to the particular and local or to the global or universal. In particular, literary analysts have taken an interest in the novel's treatment of the practices of Islam and the structures of gender identities. ![]() Much of the criticism on this work deals with the relationship between the novel and feminisms and/or the relationship between the novel and "traditional" or "local" society. Since then, Une si Longue Lettre and its eight translations, including the English version So Long a Letter (1981), have attracted a great deal of attention from African, European, and American critics (Warner 1240). ![]() Ba's first novel, Une si Longue Lettre (1979), won the first Noma Award for Publishing in Africa at the 1980 Frankfurt Book Fair. Examples of such lists include d'Almeida's study on Francophone African Women Writers, Hitchcott's on Women Writers in Francophone Africa, and Larrier's on Francophone Women Writers of Africa and the Caribbean. Most lists of important female contributors to the African literary canon, particularly in French, make mention of Mariama Ba. ![]()
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