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Unit 4 · Literary Criticism and Theory English · December 2024

Arrange the following in chronological order:

  1. A. Nation and Narration
  2. B. The Dialogic Imagination
  3. C. Anthropology and the Colonial Encounter
  4. D. Discourse on Colonialism
  5. E. Orientalism

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Correct answer: A. D, C, E, B, A

Explanation

Césaire, Discourse on Colonialism (1950) → Talal Asad (ed.), Anthropology and the Colonial Encounter (1973) → Said, Orientalism (1978) → Bakhtin, The Dialogic Imagination (English, 1981) → Bhabha (ed.), Nation and Narration (1990).

Note: Marked dropped in some keys; option 1 is the correct order.

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