The Transformations of Araucania from Valdivia's Letters to Vivar's Chronicle

The Author: María de Jesús Cordero is Professor of Language and Latin American Literature at Utah State University. Born in Matanzas, Cuba, she emigrated to the United States with her family ten years after the Revolution. She was raised in Chicago, where she graduated from Loyola University with a B.A. in Spanish and English. Cordero received her M.A. in comparative literature from New York University and her M.A. and her Ph.D. in Romance languages at Princeton University.