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Bearing Proxy-Witness
- Biography
- University of Hawai'i Press
- Volume 25, Number 1, Winter 2002
- pp. 58-72
- 10.1353/bio.2002.0004
- Article
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"Bearing Proxy-Witness" explores the relationship between ghostwriting and proxy-witnessing an historical trauma. Focusing on a collection of letters written by a member of Patton's Third Army who liberated Nazi concentration camps, this essay examines the effects of writing another's experience-across national and generational geographies-in the construction of identity.