equerimiento literally and figura

tively rereads, reads to, and writes a new place. New Mexico, in this founding gesture. This writerly performance does not ceremonially seal the victories of warfare: it enacts and initiates the founding violence of conquest itself. Conquest Imitation The story of the conquest of New Mexico is not one of origins or providential beginnings; it is, rather, the story of the decadence of the Spanish conquest imagina