Which of the following works is recognized as the pioneering text in postcolonial criticism?

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Harold Bloom’s essay titled "An Elegy for the Canon"Jacques Lacan’s paper "The Mirror Stage..."Cleanth Brooks’s article "Keats’s Sylvan Historian"Edward Said’s book "Orientalism"

Explanation

Options A, B, and C represent important literary and psychoanalytic works but are not foundational texts in postcolonial studies. The correct answer is D, Edward Said’s "Orientalism," which is widely regarded as the first major work to establish postcolonial criticism as a scholarly field.