This essay explores a particular genre in postcolonial literature: the literature of human rights. It uses a semi-fictional, semi-autobiographical narrative, the Argentinian Alicia Partnoy's account of her incarceration. The essay begins by proposing, following contemporary theorists of human rights, that a narrative tradition of human rights exists. It then moves on to discuss the `literature of trauma'. Partnoy's work, it argues, demonstrates two strategies--the enumerative narrative of witnessing and self-witnessing. Partnoy produces a `fiction of trauma', or `testimonial fiction'. This fiction, the essay concludes, works at the level of a `moral imagination', where the act of imagination is a performative through which the subject is formed, but also one that allows Partnoy to speak of the victims who did not survive the camp. This becomes the `fiction of human rights' because it constructs the subjectivity--which includes agency--of Partnoy. If the focus of human rights discourses is the protection of the subject's agency, then the construction of subjectivity in The Little School makes it a narrative of human rights. It concludes by proposing, via Ashis Nandy's argument that the (postcolonial) Third World can become the `collective representation of man-made suffering', that such narratives fit into a global history of trauma and human rights.