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Arrange the following historical periods, events, and milestones—particularly in relation to the development and academic critique of Edward Said's 'Orientalism'—in chronological order: A. The roughly defined starting point of Orientalism as a corporate institution for dominating and having authority over the Orient B. The publication of Orientalism, a text later critiqued for reifying the Occident-Orient binary and ignoring the historical agency of the Orient C. The earliest temporal point (Aeschylus) cited by critics to argue that Said inadvertently reinforces the framework he attacks by treating the West as a homogenized entity D. The publication of the Afterword to Orientalism, in which Said attempts to correct willful misunderstandings of his arguments E. The period marking the beginning of an enormous amount of postcolonial work motivated by urgent historical and political imperatives Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
- 1A, B, C, E, D
- 2A, C, B, D, E
- 3C, A, B, E, D✓
- 4C, B, A, E, D
Correct answer
C, A, B, E, D
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