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    1) The document discusses Juan Preciado, Pedro Páramo, and Susana San Juan in the novel Pedro Páramo, who are all haunted by ghosts and eventually become ghosts themselves that haunt others. 2) It explores Avery F. Gordon's concept of ghosts and haunting as a way to understand these characters and link the aesthetic, social, and reader's experience. Gordon views ghosts as social figures that reveal something barely visible in history and subjectivity. 3) Reading Pedro Páramo gives readers a "transformative recognition" of Mexico's early 20th century transition to modernity through the experience of being haunted, rather than just objective history lessons. The novel immer

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    1) The document discusses Juan Preciado, Pedro Páramo, and Susana San Juan in the novel Pedro Páramo, who are all haunted by ghosts and eventually become ghosts themselves that haunt others. 2) It explores Avery F. Gordon's concept of ghosts and haunting as a way to understand these characters and link the aesthetic, social, and reader's experience. Gordon views ghosts as social figures that reveal something barely visible in history and subjectivity. 3) Reading Pedro Páramo gives readers a "transformative recognition" of Mexico's early 20th century transition to modernity through the experience of being haunted, rather than just objective history lessons. The novel immer

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    1) The document discusses Juan Preciado, Pedro Páramo, and Susana San Juan in the novel Pedro Páramo, who are all haunted by ghosts and eventually become ghosts themselves that haunt others. 2) It explores Avery F. Gordon's concept of ghosts and haunting as a way to understand these characters and link the aesthetic, social, and reader's experience. Gordon views ghosts as social figures that reveal something barely visible in history and subjectivity. 3) Reading Pedro Páramo gives readers a "transformative recognition" of Mexico's early 20th century transition to modernity through the experience of being haunted, rather than just objective history lessons. The novel immer

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    1) The document discusses Juan Preciado, Pedro Páramo, and Susana San Juan in the novel Pedro Páramo, who are all haunted by ghosts and eventually become ghosts themselves that haunt others. 2) It explores Avery F. Gordon's concept of ghosts and haunting as a way to understand these characters and link the aesthetic, social, and reader's experience. Gordon views ghosts as social figures that reveal something barely visible in history and subjectivity. 3) Reading Pedro Páramo gives readers a "transformative recognition" of Mexico's early 20th century transition to modernity through the experience of being haunted, rather than just objective history lessons. The novel immer

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    PAPER #2—PEDRO PÁRAMO: DUE 8 MARCH

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    Juan Preciado, Pedro Páramo and Susana San Juan are all haunted by ghosts; in turn, they become ghosts
    who haunt the realities of others. Although as readers we have the sense of lives once lived by these
    characters, they emerge for us as phantasms, as partially known presences who are not immediately
    intelligible and who linger with inexplicable tenacity. In Ghostly Matters: Haunting and the Sociological
    Imagination, Avery F. Gordon explores the figure of the ghost and the experience of haunting to develop a
    valuable framework for linking the aesthetic, the social, and the reader’s experiences. Gordon explains that
    “[t]he ghost is not simply a dead or missing person, but a social figure, and investigating it can led to that
    dense site where history and subjectivity make social life. The ghost or the apparition is one form by which
    something lost, or barely visible, or seemingly not there to our supposedly well-trained eyes, makes itself
    known or apparent to us.” Most importantly, seeing ghosts gives us the experience of being haunted, and
    “haunting is a very particular way of knowing what has happened or is happening. Being haunted draws us
    affectively, sometimes against our will and always a bit magically, into the structure of feeling of a reality we
    come to experience, not as cold knowledge, but as transformative recognition.” Reading Pedro Páramo
    creates a transformative recognition of Mexico’s move toward modernity in the early 20th century; more than
    the objective lessons learned from social and cultural history, as a novel, Pedro Páramo produces a structure
    of feeling for readers that immerses us through the experience of haunting.

    Juan Preciado, Pedro Páramo y Susana San Juan están embrujados; en cambio ellos se convierten en
    fantasmas que rondan las realidades de otros. Aunque como lectores tenemos la impresión de las vidas
    anteriores de estos personajes, se nos presentan como fantasmas, como presencias conocidas a medias, que
    no entendemos al principio, y que se quedan con nosotros tenacidad inexplicable. En la obra Ghostly
    Matters: Haunting and the Sociological Imagination, Avery F. Gordon explora la figura del fantasma y la
    experiencia del encanto para desarrollar una estructura para combinar lo estético, lo social y las experiencias
    del lector. Gordon explica que “el fantasma no es sólo una persona muerta o desaparecida, sino una figura
    social, y las investigaciones nos pueden llevar a este lugar oscuro donde la historia y la sujetividad hacen una
    vida social. El fantasma o la aparición is una forma mediante la cual algo perdido o poco visible o por lo
    visto ausente al nuestra visión, se nos presenta. “ Por encima de todo, el ver a los fantasmas nos da la
    experiencia de estar embrujado, y “el embrujamiento es una manera muy particular de enterarse de lo que
    pasó o está pasando. El estar embrujado nos atrae afectivamente, a veces en contra de nuestros deseos, y
    siempre con algo de magia, y nos pone en la situación de experimentar una realidad que no apreciamos como
    hechos en sí, sino como un reconocimiento transformativo.” Al leer Pedro Páramo, se crea un
    reconocimiento transformativo de la mudanza de México hacia la modernidad en la primera parte del siglo
    20. Más que las lecciones objetivas aprendidas de la historia social y cultural, como novela Pedro Páramo
    produce una estructura de sentimientos en el lecturo que nos absorba mediante la experiencia del
    embrujamiento.

    Once we get over the shock of reading a novel related by dead people, we can move into a different realm of
    understanding and reacting to the novel. I would like your reactions to the quote above in terms of your own
    understanding and reactions to the novel. Please refer to the text [p. #]. ANY OUTSIDE SOURCES MUST
    BE CITED. I am looking for a 2-3 pages reaction.

    Una vez que nos acostumbremos al hecho de que leemos una historia contada por muertos, ajustamos nuestra
    comprensión y reacción a la novela. Lo que quiero son tus reacciones a la cita de arriba en cuanto a tus
    reaccions y comprensión de la novela. Espero alusiones concretas a la novela [en forma de p. #]. HAY QUE
    CITAR REFERENCIAS AJENAS.. 2-3 páginas serán suficientes.

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