Goon Squad does not merely express a longing for the past, however, but ultimately inspires an imagination of a future beyond the double binds of network culture. Engaging the age of “network culture,” the text both calls attention to the readers’ own posthumanist networked condition in an increasingly connective world and performatively deliberates a nostalgia for the analog era. Crucially, Goon Squad’s appropriation of the network exceeds the digital context and stimulates reflections about a posthumanist sociality of relationality and interdependence. A Visit from the Goon Squad Jennifer Egan Anchor Books, 2010 - Fiction - 400 pages 2401 Reviews Reviews arent verified, but Google checks for and removes fake content when its identified. Visit from the Goon Squad (Egan) - LitLovers Visit from the Goon Squad (Egan) A Visit from the Goon Squad Jennifer Egan, 2010 Knopf Doubleday 288 pp. Egan utilizes the network’s apparent formlessness to probe numerous surprising convergences among characters, times and places. Conversely, this essay shows that the notion of the (narrative) network is best suited to encompass its varying themes and sprawling shape. The idiosyncratic structure of Jennifer Egan’s A Visit from the Goon Squad (2010) provoked many critics to discuss it with reference to both established and new literary forms. A Visit from the Goon Squad shifts among various perspectives, voices, and time periods, and in one striking chapter (pages 176251), departs from conventional narrative entirely.
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