Popular Culture Review Volume 30, Number 1, Winter 2019 | Page 120

War , Patriotism , and Nationality in the Nor wegian and Swedish Translations of Cherry Ames
other outdoors . Cherry is in the middle , and one of the nurses is looking at her , while the other is looking at a document in Cherry ’ s hand . Cherry establishes contact with the reader with a determined gaze , but this gaze does not reflect her personality in the novel . Instead , she almost looks condescendingly at the reader from the corner of her eye with an undefinable smile on her lips . This could be a signal of Cherry ’ s superior rank after her advance to the position as chief nurse ( cf . Kress and van Leeuwen 118 ). There is a modern hospital building in the background , which is clearly not the evacuation hospital in the Pacific jungle . The cover of the book does not , therefore , reflect its story , since Cherry is in the Pacific jungle throughout the entire book and does not spend any time at such a modern hospital as depicted on the cover . This is clearly an example of all elements of the war being excluded from the covers of the translated books .
In Flight Nurse , Cherry and her friends complete their education to become flight nurses in Randolph Field , Texas . They are sent to England , where they encounter the harsh realities of the war . At one point , Cherry also experiences a German attack while flying wounded soldiers from the battlefront . The American , Norwegian , and Swedish covers of Flight Nurse are similar , and symbols of both war and patriotism are represented on all three covers ( see figs . 9 – 11 ).
The Norwegian and Swedish covers are very much based on the American cover image . Cherry is portrayed at a personal distance . According to Kress and van Leeuwen ’ s theories concerning the grammar of visual design , this distance allows the readers to identify with Cherry and her hopes and dreams ( 124 ). The most obvious symbol of patriotism represented on the cover is Cherry ’ s clothing . She is wearing the U . S . Air Forces ’ uniform with the classic wings and the let-
109