Popular Culture Review Volume 30, Number 1, Winter 2019 | Page 127

Popular Culture Review 30.1
the American army during the war . In the Swedish version , Cooper has flown “ I Kina och över Kalotten ” ( 13 ), where the latter geographical region denotes the northernmost part of arctic Scandinavia . The action has thus been drastically moved away from the Hump and everything linked to the geographical areas where the U . S . Air Force was active during the Second World War . This could be an act of domestication , where the action is set closer to home for the Swedish readers . Geographical names in general seem to have been made less American in the Swedish target texts than in the Norwegian ones . Even the geographical term “ New England ” is translated literally into “ Nya England ,” which is not considered correct in Swedish . Geographical names have been made less specific and less American , also making Cherry appear less American . For example , when boarding the vessel to England , Cherry and a couple of her friends are divided into different groups . Cherry and her friends are placed together with three other nurses forming a group of six . They tell each other where they come from ( Illinois , Pennsylvania , New England , and Minnesota ) and this passage , where metalinguistic comments on the girls ’ dialects are made , has been left out in the Swedish translation .
In another passage , Cherry , Cooper , and a couple of fighter pilots drink Coca-Cola and meet some soldiers who express their admiration for the flight nurses . They say , “ You flight nurses are our real pin-up girls ” ( 39 ), which has been translated to “ Dere flysøstre er virkelige pin-up girls ” ( 30 ) in Norwegian , which has almost the exact same meaning as in the source text . Despite today ’ s negative connotations , this is meant as a compliment . The pilot who utters these words argues that the nurses , who do so many good deeds , are genuine , admirable , and good-looking . He says that when the pilots salute the girls , they do so because they mean it and
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