ABSTRACT

Jaspreet Singh's Helium, a novel concerning 1984's anti-Sikh pogroms, seeks to archive the impunity on which sovereignty is based. This basis remains indelible. Impunity's unconscionability contaminates conscience as we know it and as it allows us to know. The cruelty that imbues impunity impacts all social formations and compromises our ethics and politics in practice and in theory as we practice it. At stake in reading sovereign impunity, then, is its very readability. It may be unreadable or readable as unreadable. Fathoming how we are marked by what we resist, Singh writes about the (un)readable in the archive of 1984.

摘要

Jaspreet Singh 的Helium是一部关于 1984 年反锡克教大屠杀的小说，旨在记录作为主权基础的有罪不罚现象。这个基础仍然是不可磨灭的。有罪不罚的不合情理污染了我们所知道的良心，因为它让我们知道。有罪不罚的残酷影响了所有社会形态，并在我们实践时在实践和理论上损害了我们的道德和政治。那么，阅读主权不受惩罚的关键在于它的可读性。它可能不可读或可读为不可读。辛格在 1984 年的档案中写了关于（不可读）的内容，以了解我们如何被我们所抵制的标记。