Kristyn Harman Kristyn Harman i(A121363 works by) (birth name: Kristyn Evelyn Harman)
Gender: Female
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1 y separately published work icon The Van Diemen Anthology 2023 Tony Fenton , Kristyn Harman , Kirstie Ross , Chris Champion , Hobart : Forty South Publishing , 2023 27225350 2023 anthology essay biography

'The best of the VAN DIEMEN HISTORY PRIZE 2022-2023 selected by Dr Kristyn Harman, Kirstie Ross, Tony Fenton and Chris Champion.

'The idea for The Van Diemen History Prize came out of a conversation with Associate Professor Kristyn Harman, of the University of Tasmania. Her idea was then honed to fit the underlying philosophy of Forty South Tasmania - high-quality writing on a Tasmanian theme, aimed at a general audience. The competition is for articles up to 3,000 words on any aspect of Tasmanian history prior to the 21st century.' (Publication summary)

1 Uncanny Parallels : Jennifer Kent’s the Nightingale, Violence, and the Vandemonian Past Kristyn Harman , 2020 single work criticism
— Appears in: Studies in Australasian Cinema , vol. 14 no. 1 2020; (p. 35-46)

'Set in mid-1820s Van Diemen’s Land, The Nightingale depicts a dark and disturbing Tasmanian past populated with redcoats, convicts, Aboriginal people, and a few free settlers. Controversial scenes include the repeated rape of a young female convict, the murders of her husband and infant, and the rape and murder of an Aboriginal woman. Uncanny parallels can be drawn between the on-screen experiences of the white female lead, and the violence visited on the bodies of Tasmanian colonial woman Elizabeth Tibbs, her husband, and infant in 1826. After situating the film within its historical context, this paper provides a mimetic reading through elaborating these parallels. It interrogates key points of divergence between these fictional and historical accounts of women’s lives to explore what they reveal about gender, class, race, violence, and justice in colonial Van Diemen’s Land and its depiction in twenty-first century Australia.' (Publication abstract)

1 Explainer: How Tasmania’s Aboriginal People Reclaimed a Language, Palawa Kani Kristyn Harman , 2018 single work essay
— Appears in: The Conversation , 19 July 2018;
1 A Tasmanian Requiem Is a Musical Reckoning, and a Pathway to Reconciliation Kristyn Harman , 2018 single work column
— Appears in: The Conversation , 24 April 2018;

'On December 26, 1847, a small group of Aboriginal people sat in the Lieutenant-Governor’s box at Hobart’s Theatre Royal watching a new pantomime. A local newspaper reported how “the natives … seemed gratified at their first public introduction to society in a place of amusement”. The Aboriginal spectators commanded as much, if not more, public attention than the performance itself.'  (Introduction)

1 Clarrie Combo, Mrs Brown and Aboriginal Soldiers in WW2 Kristyn Harman , 2018 single work column
— Appears in: The Conversation , 25 April 2018;

'During the second world war, a young Aboriginal soldier, Private Clarrie Combo from New South Wales, exchanged mail with Mrs F. C. Brown from Loxton, South Australia — a white woman whom he had never met.' (Introduction)

1 [Review Essay] Into the Heart of Tasmania : A Search for Human Antiquity Kristyn Harman , 2017 single work essay
— Appears in: Australian Historical Studies , vol. 48 no. 3 2017; (p. 451-452)

'The intriguing image of an early twentieth-century English gentleman bicycling around Tasmania with his tent to collect Aboriginal stone tools and interview descendants of the island’s first people will likely capture readers’ imaginations. The man was Ernest Westlake, a learned and eccentric Quaker who travelled extensively in pursuit of his intellectual goals.' (Introduction)

1 [Review Essay] Skin Deep: Settler Impressions of Aboriginal Women. Kristyn Harman , 2017 single work essay
— Appears in: Journal of Australian Studies , March vol. 41 no. 1 2017; (p. 131-132)
1 Hohepa Te Umuroa's Invented 'Wife' Te Rai : Crossing the Line Between Historical Fiction and Fact Kristyn Harman , 2016 single work criticism
— Appears in: Tasmanian Historical Studies , vol. 21 no. 2016; (p. 85-98)

'In November 1846 five young Maori warriors arrived in Hobart from New Zealand after being sentenced to transportation for life. Their arrival n the penal colony caused a sensation. Tasmanian colonists condemned their New Zealand counterparts for the treatment being meted out to local indigenous peoples, lobbied for the humane treatment of the men while they were in Van Diemen's Land, and advocated for their repatriation to their homeland. While consent to repatriate the men was being sought from London, the warriors were initially housed at the Hobart Penitentiary. During their first few days there, each man's portrait was painted in luminous watercolours by noted colonial artist John Skinner Prout. Hohepa Te Umuroa was perhaps the most compelling looking of the five. His portrait was also painted by Wiliam Duke, this time in oils. The afterlife of Duke's portrait, specifically the story that became attached to it, is the focus of this article and is situated within a wider debate about history and historical fiction.' (Introduction)

1 [Review] Brokers & Boundaries : Colonial Exploration in Indigenous Territory Kristyn Harman , 2016 single work review
— Appears in: Aboriginal History , vol. 40 no. 2016; (p. 297-299)

— Review of Brokers and Boundaries : Colonial Exploration in Indigenous Territory 2016 selected work criticism biography
1 'The Families Were ...Too Poor to Send Them Parcels' : The Provision of Comforts to Aboriginal Soldiers in the AIF in the Second World War Kristyn Harman , 2015 single work essay
— Appears in: Aboriginal History , December vol. 39 no. 2015; (p. 223-243)
'In mid-1941, Private Clarrie Combo from New South Wales sent a letter from Syria, where he was stationed, to Mrs Brown of Loxton in South Australia...'
1 The Last Man: A British Genocide in Tasmania [Book Review] Kristyn Harman , 2014 single work review
— Appears in: Aboriginal History , December vol. 38 no. 2014; (p. 225-227)

— Review of The Last Man : A British Genocide in Tasmania Tom Lawson , 2014 multi chapter work criticism
2 1 y separately published work icon Aboriginal Convicts : Australian, Khoisan and Maori Exiles Kristyn Harman , Sydney : NewSouth Publishing , 2012 6093378 2012 single work biography

'Bulldog and Musquito, Aboriginal warriors from the Hawkesbury, were captured and sent to Norfolk Island following frontier skirmishes in New South Wales. Eventually, Bulldog seems to have made it home. Musquito was transported to Van Diemen's Land, where he laboured as a convict servant. He never returned. Hohepa Te Umuroa was arrested near Wellington in 1846, with a group of Maori warriors. Five of the men were transported to Van Diemen's Land where Te Umuroa died in custody. More than 140 years later, his remains were carried home to New Zealand. Booy Piet, a twenty-six year-old Khoisan soldier from the Cape Colony, was transported to Van Diemen's Land for desertion in 1842. After three years of convict labour, he died in Hobart General Hospital. These men are among 130 aboriginal convicts who were transported to and within the Australian penal colonies. They lived, laboured, were punished, and died alongside other convicts, but until this groundbreaking book, their stories had largely been forgotten.' (Publisher's blurb)

1 Multiple Subjectivities : Writing Duall's Life as Social Biography Kristyn Harman , 2008 single work criticism
— Appears in: Indigenous Biography and Autobiography 2008; (p. 47-56)
1 y separately published work icon Ice Dreaming : Reading Whiteness in Kim Scott's Benang : From the Heart Kristyn Harman , Tasmania : 2004 8612232 2004 single work thesis

'Through a close reading of Kim Scott's Benang: From the Heart, this thesis interrogates what whiteness in an Australian colonial context looks like from an Aboriginal perspective. Its central proposition is that Scott's narrator, Harley, discovers whiteness as a consequence of discovering his Aboriginality...' (Source: Abstract)

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