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Publisher's Synopsis
Inspired by 'official' family documents and by Jacques Derrida's essay 'Archive Fever: A Freudian Impression', M(P)atriarchive draws on archival materials relating to my grandmotherUniversity of Sheffield, great grandmother and great great grandmother. It aims to highlight how - far from documenting their existence - the women are in reality 'undocumented' by male-dominated bureaucratic language and archival convention. Using prose blocks, formal language and incorporating 'found' materials, it seeks to subvert these processes to 'rewrite' the archive of their lives.
