Which postcolonial critics drew on Lacan, Foucault and Derrida in critiquing Eurocentrism?
- A. Homi K. Bhabha
- B. Gayatri Spivak
- C. Abdul JanMohamed
- D. Edward Said
- E. Aimé Césaire
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Correct answer: A. A, B, C and D only
Explanation
Bhabha (Lacan, Derrida), Spivak (Derrida, Foucault), Said (Foucault) and JanMohamed (Lacanian Manichean allegory) belong to the poststructuralist moment. Césaire's Discourse on Colonialism (1950) predates it.
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