In addition to being a pun on the film Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back, the phrase refers to the ways post-colonial voices respond to the literary canon.
Ottoman Empire | Order of the British Empire | Russian Empire | Roman Empire | British Empire | Holy Roman Empire | German Empire | Byzantine Empire | Mughal Empire | Austrian Empire | First French Empire | Back to the Future | Empire of Japan | Empire State Building | Vijayanagara Empire | Spanish Empire | Boardwalk Empire | Empire | Back to the Bible | Mongol Empire | Second French Empire | Order of the Indian Empire | Portuguese Empire | Achaemenid Empire | Parthian Empire | Maratha Empire | Western Roman Empire | Seleucid Empire | The Empire Strikes Back | Hackney Empire |