Arrange the following in chronological order of their year of
publication:
A. Nation and Narration
B. The Dialogic Imagination
C. Anthropology and the Colonial Encounter
D. Discourse on Colonialism
E. Orientalism

Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

The correct answer is D, C, E, B, A.

To determine the correct chronological order, we look at the publication years of each work:
- D. Discourse on Colonialism by Aimé Césaire was published in 1950.
- C. Anthropology and the Colonial Encounter edited by Talal Asad was published in 1973.
- E. Orientalism by Edward W. Said was published in 1978.
- B. The Dialogic Imagination by Mikhail Bakhtin was published in English in 1981.
- A. Nation and Narration edited by Homi K. Bhabha was published in 1990.

Arranging these years in ascending order gives 1950, 1973, 1978, 1981, and 1990, which corresponds to the sequence D, C, E, B, A.