This essay examines a subgenre of the Human Rights novel, the torture novel, devoted to the social ontology of the human. In the HR torture novel embodiment is rendered ‘abject’ and the subject ‘unmade’, through dehumanization and debasement. The abject embodiment is the consequence of institutional precarity and collapsing social apparatuses. Tortured subjects acquire membership of a collective memory of pain, a trauma-memory citizenship, made possible through the articulation of memories of torture, bringing together fellow sufferers, former perpetrators and witnesses.The essay concludes that the torture novel is integral to the project of Human Rights because it demonstrates how broken bodies are produced in eroding social conditions, driven by state policy, state indifference or state oppression.

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人权酷刑小说

本文考察了人权小说的一个子类型，即酷刑小说，致力于人类的社会本体论。在 HR 酷刑小说中，通过非人化和贬低，小说的化身被呈现为“卑鄙的”，而主体则被呈现为“未制造的”。卑鄙的体现是制度不稳定和社会机构崩溃的结果。受折磨的对象获得了痛苦的集体记忆的成员资格，一种创伤记忆的公民身份，通过将折磨的记忆联系起来，将其他受害者、前肇事者和目击者聚集在一起，使之成为可能。 本文得出的结论是，酷刑小说是该计划不可或缺的一部分。人权，因为它展示了在国家政策、国家冷漠或国家压迫的推动下，在侵蚀的社会条件下如何产生破碎的身体。