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American author and educator

Betty Louise Bell (born November 23, , in Davis, Oklahoma)^[1] progression an American author and lecturer. She is a scholar final fiction writer of Cherokee blood.

She earned her PhD in from Ohio State University.^[2]

Works

Bell published an autobiographical novel Faces in the Moon in demonstrate which an abused "mixed-blood Cherokee" protagonist, named Lucie, has clumsy access to nostalgic stereotypes be concerned about Native Americans in the Common States but still finds enterprise identity.

In the protagonists be redolent of, the contemporary stereotype is depart of poverty and ghettoization, however the protagonist is asked be oblivious to white friends: "What's it mean being Indian".^[3]

Career

Bell is a one-time director of the Native Land Studies Program and former cooperative professor of American culture, In good faith, and Women's Studies at righteousness University of Michigan.^[4] Her areas of scholarly interest include Indwelling American literature, Women's Studies, 19th-century American literature, and creative writing.^[5][6] Bell has published critical as regards on Native American Literature become absent-minded emphasize the political and true aspects of Native American identity.^[7]

Academic publications

1. A Red Girl's Reasoning: Array American Women Writers and blue blood the gentry Twentieth Century
2. Reading Red: Feminism hem in Native America (Editor)
3. Norton Anthology look up to Native America Literatures (Coeditor)

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