ABSTRACT
Entr’acte literature frequently featured majos and majas, a working-class or marginalized urban populace identified as “the people.” However, majos are depicted as keenly policed and subject to seizure, imprisonment and transport to forced labor at public works and North African presidios. This chapter examines the majo experience of arrest and convict transport as imagined through sainetes and tonadillas. The depiction of majos as subjects of penality and convict transportation refers audiences to both evolving Enlightenment penal reforms, and the harvesting of everyday lives to furnish the labor needed within larger territorial imperatives.
