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By Fedwa Malti-Douglas
"What is that this unusual publication" asks Fedwa Malti-Douglas, "that can deliver the yank presidency to its knees?" during this probing research of Kenneth W. Starr's influential and old paintings, she unearths how The Starr record uncovered the cultural traits, wants, and taboos of usa citizens whereas it disrobed the main robust guy on the planet. Unveiling the political and ideological implications of the report's relentless pursuit of corporeal and prurient element, Malti-Douglas underscores the document's ground-breaking nature -- either for its criminal and cultural content material. What does the record suggest approximately American values whilst it again and again issues to the dates on which trysts happened? Why does gender appear so risky within the document? and the way do such diverse gadgets as Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass or Arthur Koestler's Darkness at midday or a Hugo Boss tie or Vox, a unique approximately mobile intercourse, healthy into the felony discourse of the record? Fraught with assumptions approximately gender and sexuality, the record displays a method to exploit Clinton's "body traditional" to undermine his "body politic."
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But after the demise of their affair, the ill winds of fortune blow their way, and their private liaison becomes public. A banal enough story, perhaps. Except that the middle-aged married man happens to be the president of the United States, Bill Clinton, and the younger woman, initially a White House intern, Monica Lewinsky. As for the winds of ill fortune, they are embodied in that Aeolus of the 1990s, Independent Counsel Kenneth W. Starr. His investigation leads to The Starr Report, this chameleonlike textual creature.
And this message, true to the dictates of a consumer society, does not have to be overt. Rather, its strength comes precisely from what may appear initially to be its seeming transparency and almost banal nature. No matter the content, however, the message remains deeply American. Crossing linguistic borders sets the American signifiers in new cultural contexts. The examination of two different covers will reveal the visual and verbal languages of The Starr Report as it ventures beyond its home territory.
On the left of the cover and sideways is the name of the publisher. The back cover of the French version is as eloquent as the front. The American flag from the front cover comes around the left side of the back and stops about a quarter into the space, the rest of which is composed of white background with black print and black-and-white pictures: three pictures at the top, three at the bottom. These small pictures show the faces and a bit of clothing here and there. Each of the characters is identified with a name and a description under his or her picture.