Wittenberg, Hermann26/11/201326/11/20132011Wittenberg, H. (2011). Notes towards a history of Khoi literature. English Academy Review: Southern African Journal of English Studies, 28(1): 6-221013-1752https://hdl.handle.net/10566/866http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10131752.2011.573999This article puts forward a revisionist history of Khoi literature, and also presents a number of translated Khoi narratives that have not been available in English before. Compared to the large volume of Bushman literature and scholarship, there has been very little Khoi literature and engagement with it, and an argument is presented to account for this gap in South African cultural history. Until now, the major source of Khoi literature was Wilhelm Bleek�s Reynard the Fox in South Africa (1864), and this text is critically interrogated as a limiting version of Khoi orature. An alternative corpus of Khoi narratives is presented that was originally published in Leonard Schultze�s Aus Namaland und Kalahari (1907).enThis is the authors' final draft following peer review. It may be displayed and circulated, subject to full acknowledgement of author and source. The published item is copyright Taylor & Francis.Khoi literatureBushman literatureBleek, Wilhelm Heinrich ImmanuelSchultze, LeonardOralityTranslationArticle