Young Adult Fiction
Alaska by Sue Saliba & Clara in Washington by Penny Tangey
Reviewed by Stephen Mansfield •
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.
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Clara in Washington
by Penny Tangey
University of Queensland Press, $19.95 pb, 253 pp, 9780702238871
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