TABLE OF CONTENTS Acknowledgments iv Author’s Declaration v INTRODUCTION 1 Part One: Plagiarism and Competing Claims to the Country 1 Scope of the Study 3 1.2 Critical Approach 5 1. 3 Debates about Plagiarism, Originality and Authenticity in the New South Africa 8 1. 4 ‘White Writing/Writing Black’: Constructing National Literatures 11 1.5 Cultural Translation and ‘Bad English’ 14 Part Two: Critical Debates about Plagiarism 16 2.1 Cultural and Legal Contexts 20 2.2 Plagiarism and the Literary 23 2.3 Plagiarism and Romanticism 25 2.4. Theories of Authorship 28 Part Three: Chapter Outlines 32 3. 1 Chapter One 32 3.2 Chapter Two 34 3.3 Chapter Three 36 CHAPTER ONE: White Writing and the Annals of Plagiarism 38 Part One: ‘The Annals of Plagiarism’: Antjie Krog, Stephen Watson and the Bleek and Lloyd Collection 38 1. 1The Bleek and Lloyd Collection 39 1.2 ‘The Annals of Plagiarism’: A ‘Local, Extra-literary Tradition’ 44 1.3 Watson’s Allegations of Plagiarism in the stars say ‘tsau’ 55 1.4 Return of the Moon: Making It New 66 1.5 Storytelling as Gift, Weapon and Commodity 69 1.6 ‘The Narcissism of Small Differences’ 78 Part Two: ‘The Annals of Plagiarism’: Indigenous Literatures in White Writing 81 2.1 Laurens van der Post’s Use of Specimens 82 2.2 The Kukummi in Afrikaans Literary Tradition 86 2.3 Khoisan Folklore and Fakelore. 95 2.4 Reynard the Fox 100 2.5 Travel Writing: Fact and Fiction 108
TABLE OF CONTENTS Acknowledgments iv Author’s Declaration v INTRODUCTION 1 Part One: Plagiarism and Competing Claims to the Country 1 Scope of the Study 3 1.2 Critical Approach 5 1. 3 Debates about Plagiarism, Originality and Authenticity in the New South Africa 8 1. 4 ‘White Writing/Writing Black’: Constructing National Literatures 11 1.5 Cultural Translation and ‘Bad English’ 14 Part Two: Critical Debates about Plagiarism 16 2.1 Cultural and Legal Contexts 20 2.2 Plagiarism and the Literary 23 2.3 Plagiarism and Romanticism 25 2.4. Theories of Authorship 28 Part Three: Chapter Outlines 32 3. 1 Chapter One 32 3.2 Chapter Two 34 3.3 Chapter Three 36 CHAPTER ONE: White Writing and the Annals of Plagiarism 38 Part One: ‘The Annals of Plagiarism’: Antjie Krog, Stephen Watson and the Bleek and Lloyd Collection 38 1. 1The Bleek and Lloyd Collection 39 1.2 ‘The Annals of Plagiarism’: A ‘Local, Extra-literary Tradition’ 44 1.3 Watson’s Allegations of Plagiarism in the stars say ‘tsau’ 55 1.4 Return of the Moon: Making It New 66 1.5 Storytelling as Gift, Weapon and Commodity 69 1.6 ‘The Narcissism of Small Differences’ 78 Part Two: ‘The Annals of Plagiarism’: Indigenous Literatures in White Writing 81 2.1 Laurens van der Post’s Use of Specimens 82 2.2 The Kukummi in Afrikaans Literary Tradition 86 2.3 Khoisan Folklore and Fakelore. 95 2.4 Reynard the Fox 100 2.5 Travel Writing: Fact and Fiction 108
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