Aboriginality “Re‐imagined”: The representation of Aboriginal identity and resistance in Jane Harrison's The Visitors (2021)

The aim of this article is to examine the representation of Aboriginal Australians' identity and resistance in The Visitors (2021)—a play by Jane Harrison (an Indigenous Australian woman playwright) that presents her “re‐imagined” vision of the events happening before the beginning of the British colonization of Australia at the end of the 18th century. Harrison's play will be analyzed through mostly Indigenous and, to a limited extent, non‐Indigenous perspectives on Aboriginal identity and resistance. I will argue that Indigenous Australian Identity in Jane Harrison's play is portrayed as formed by “relatedness” (the term developed by Karen Martin) and deeply rooted in timeless connections with land, nature, tradition, and unity, which are its basic parts. I will also analyze how “relatedness” affects individual approaches that create various aspects of Indigenous Australians' resistance in The Visitors .