Creating a Stir Wherever She Goes

“What does `Moving Devi’ mean?” (the organizer) asked.

“The answer,” she said, “is a change in the relation of the subject who is writing from a place where Devi belongs as she slowly moves into the text of the museum. What I’m looking at here is that itinerary, not the nostalgic identatrianism of the metropolitan migrant.”

As she spoke, Ms. Spivak summoned a dazzling array of references: Marx, Hegel, Freud, Lacan, Rilke, Aristotle, and Hindu and Sufi mysticism. “The Sufi is not invaginated in the polytheistic universe,” she said, “but the supernatural is invaginated in the natural.” NY Times