Invading nomadism is really a devastating drive toward settlement

Evidence

Contrast this with invading nomadism, that of the Huns, for example, or the Conquistadors, whose goal was to conquel’ lands by exterminating their occupants. Neither prudent nor circular nomadism, it spares no effect. It is an absolu te forward projection: an arrowlike nomadism. But the descendants of the Huns, Vandals, or Visigoths, as indeed those of the Conquistadors, who established their clans, settled down bit by bit, melting into their conquests. Arrowlike nomadism is a devastating desire for settlement. * Neither in arrowlike nomadism nor in circulaI’ nomadism are roots valid. — Édouard Glissant, Poetics of Relation, 119

Categorization

• XREF: Inverts the common scheme that opposes nomad to settler: the conqueror-nomad’s true telos is settlement. Connects to the reader’s theme of identity fixed through conquest and absorption. — connects to: Conquistador nomadism is a devastating longing for settlement — Édouard Glissant, Poetics of Relation, 119

Broader Connections

• Conquistador nomadism is a devastating longing for settlement #corroborates (0.95) — Édouard Glissant, Poetics of Relation, 119