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 work "The Mirror Stage and Beyond"Cleanth Brooks’s article "Keats as a Sylvan Historian"Edward Said’s book "Orientalism"

Explanation

Options A, B, and C represent significant literary and psychoanalytic texts, but they are not foundational to postcolonial criticism. Edward Said’s "Orientalism" (Option D) is widely regarded as the first major work that established the field of postcolonial studies by analyzing Western representations of the East.