discusses the framing of the transient marginals of early modern Madrid in the literary . It compares the perceptions of constables, shopkeepers, and criminals, to those of mass-produced literary representations, and argues that the literary representations "displaced" the , assigning the marginals different places in the literary texts in order to centralise the problem of urban vagrancy. The texts "spanished" the , thus establishing the image of a culturally homogenous group; and lastly, "silenced" the , under-representing the power marginals in the city derived from their knowledge of the information flows in the city.