This article explores the theme of disability and sexuality, in the novels of Raymond Williams. In all of his novels, male characters are frequently crippled and emasculated, while the female characters are capable and cryptically powerful. The crippled figures not only serve as examples of the victims of the crippling divisiveness of capitalism, but also represent working-class people, whose voices are constantly silenced. These figures also epitomize their state, the colonized and disabled Wales, politically, economically and culturally subordinated to British power. As a woman’s face affects her prospects of achieving attention, respect and power, the article also explores the facial disfigurement of female characters. Williams chooses to cripple many of his male characters, while bestowing on the female characters a quietly effective capacity for exerting strong influence over their husbands, brothers, etc. However, in this particular process of gendering power, Williams manages to overturn the traditional gender orthodoxies and patriarchal discourses. The gendering of disability and the disabling of gender is highly intertwined and mutually reinforcing. Consciously and unconsciously, he offers the reader the possibilities of a re-gendered social and political configuration, primarily in Wales and by implication beyond.

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雷蒙德·威廉姆斯小说中残疾的政治和性别化

本文探讨了雷蒙德·威廉姆斯小说中的残疾和性行为主题。在他的所有小说中，男性角色经常是残缺不全的，而女性角色则是能干且神秘的力量。残缺的人物不仅是资本主义严重分裂的受害者的例子，而且代表了工人阶级，他们的声音不断被压制。这些人物也代表了他们的国家，即被殖民和残疾的威尔士，在政治、经济和文化上都从属于英国权力。由于女性的脸会影响她获得关注、尊重和权力的前景，本文还探讨了女性角色的面部毁容。威廉姆斯选择削弱他的许多男性角色，同时赋予女性角色一种悄悄有效的能力，对她们的丈夫、兄弟等施加强大的影响。然而，在这个性别权力的特殊过程中，威廉姆斯设法推翻了传统的性别正统观念和父权话语。残疾的性别化和性别的致残是高度交织和相辅相成的。他有意识地和无意识地向读者提供了重新性别化的社会和政治配置的可能性，主要是在威尔士和其他地方。残疾的性别化和性别的致残是高度交织和相辅相成的。他有意识地和无意识地向读者提供了重新性别化的社会和政治配置的可能性，主要是在威尔士和其他地方。残疾的性别化和性别的致残是高度交织和相辅相成的。他有意识地和无意识地向读者提供了重新性别化的社会和政治配置的可能性，主要是在威尔士和其他地方。