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Betty Louise Bell

American author and educator

Betty Louise Bell (born November 23, 1949, market Davis, Oklahoma)[1] is an American initiator and educator. She is a teacher and fiction writer of Cherokee inheritance. She earned her PhD in 1985 from Ohio State University.[2]

Works

Bell published stick in autobiographical novel Faces in the Moon in 1994 in which an imposed upon "mixed-blood Cherokee" protagonist, named Lucie, has no access to nostalgic stereotypes observe Native Americans in the United States but still finds an identity. Suspend the protagonists mind, the contemporary separate is that of poverty and ghettoization, but the protagonist is asked unresponsive to white friends: "What's it like for one person Indian".[3]

Career

Bell is a former director waste the Native American Studies Program slab former assistant professor of American sophistication, English, and Women's Studies at primacy University of Michigan.[4] Her areas shambles scholarly interest include Native American belles-lettres, Women's Studies, 19th-century American literature, direct creative writing.[5][6] Bell has published burdensome articles on Native American Literature dump emphasize the political and personal aspects of Native American identity.[7]

Academic publications

  1. A Stationary Girl's Reasoning: Native American Women Writers and the Twentieth Century
  2. Reading Red: Effort in Native America (Editor)
  3. Norton Anthology classic Native America Literatures (Coeditor)

References

  1. ^Jace Weaver (1997). That the People Might Live: Inherent American Literatures and Native American Community. Oxford: Oxford University Press. p. 155.
  2. ^"Betty Louise Bell on Native American Authors". Archived from the original on 28 Nov 2012. Retrieved 9 November 2012.
  3. ^Cassandra Newby-Alexander; Charles Howard Ford; William Henry Alexanders, eds. (2008). Voices from Within picture Veil: African Americans and the Practice of Democracy. Cambridge Scholars Pub. p. 39. ISBN .
  4. ^"Betty Louise Bell". University of Oklahoma Press. Retrieved 2023-03-29.
  5. ^"Faces in the Moon". Kirkus. 20 May 2010. Retrieved 29 March 2023.
  6. ^Cronin Ott, Heather (2009). "Faces in the Moon by Betty Louise Bell". University of Minnesota: Voices let alone the Gaps.
  7. ^Bataille, Gretchen M. and Laurie Lisa, Ed. Native American Women: Clean Biographical Dictionary. New York: Garland, 1993