ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on the work of Carmen de Burgos in the light of the relatively recent discussion of the reproduction of the voice of the oppressed other. It discusses how does the committed feminist writer of the first third of the twentieth century in Spain represent those whom she feels are "defenseless and disoriented". To what extent does the object of representation include the voice of the representer, that is, Burgos herself, and how can we understand her noble project in terms of the late twentieth and early twenty-first century exploration of what some in our contemporary age have called "subaltern speech". In terms of Carmen de Burgos and her writing, one might argue that the feminist advocate centers virtually her entire enterprise both in writing and in action on the voice of those for whom speech is publically unavailable, that is, due to the lack of power, their voice, if it is even possible at all, goes unheard.
