Since the publication of Frank Moorhouse’s The Americans, Baby (1972), Australian literature has maintained a tense awareness of its powerful neighbour’s cultural sway over younger generations. Even the ‘Oz as’ Young Adult titles (think of Tim Winton’s Lockie Leonard series) concede, by studious omission, the impact of American cultural hegemony on the teenage imagination in Australia.
Alaska by Sue Saliba
Penguin, $19.95 pb, 185 pp, 9780143206118
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Clara in Washington by Penny Tangey
University of Queensland Press, $19.95 pb, 253 pp, 9780702238871
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