Can The Subaltern Speak Gayatri Spivak Analysis

The tribal people of the society were so deep rooted superstitious that they were not ready to marry a girl who has not went through circumcision and have proved her a real woman. The example of it is depicted through Waiyaki whose love for Nyambura was not fulfilled as she was not circumcised and also was criticized for this by the natives. The circumcision was done by local surgeon. In which first bath is taken in cold water of Honia.
The people have a belief that this ritual connects them to their land and to its soil. In text when Waiyaki went through it, the narrator describes:- Waiyaki was waiting for the day to come to reveal his courage like a man. The people believed that this ritual links them with the soil, “He just stared into space, fear giving him courage. His eyes never moved. He was actually …show more content…
In Gayatri Spivak’s essay, Can the Subaltern Speak? Spivak’s said that “White men were saving brown women”. The prominent thing in text id that the white missionaries are not all interested in improving the lives of women. In fact they are more concerned about establishing the imperialism in the Gikuyu community. They show themselves as a saviours whose aim is to liberate women from their monster husbands. But in reality they have no desire to empower women. Instead they were trying to establish imperial domination.
The narrator also discloses about Mustafa that he, “had become an obsession that was ever with me in my comings and goings” (61). His alliance with the females was so much hyperbolized that he make easily fell any women for him “There came a moment when I felt I had been transformed in her eyes into a naked, primitive creature, a spear in one hand and arrows in the other, hunting elephants and lions in the jungles. That was fine” (38). He used this power to tempt the beautiful women and made them fake realize that he will be marrying them in