Which of the following texts is considered the first example of postcolonial criticism ?
Correct answer: D. Edward Said's Orientalism
- A. Harold Bloom's "An Elegy for the Canon"
- B. Jacques Lacan's "The Mirror Stage ... "
- C. Cleanth Brooks's "Keats's Sylvan Historian"
- D. Edward Said's Orientalism
Explanation
Edward Said’s Orientalism is widely treated as a foundational text of postcolonial criticism because it exposes how Western discourse constructed and represented the “Orient.” The other works belong to different critical traditions.
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