The University Press of Mississippi was founded in 1970 and is supported by Mississippi's eight state universities. UPM publishes scholarly books of the highest distinction and books that interpret the South and its culture to the nation and the world. From its offices in Jackson, the University Press of Mississippi acquires, edits, distributes, and promotes more than eighty new books every year. Over the years, the Press has published more than 1000 titles and distributed more than 2,600,000 copies worldwide, each with the Mississippi imprint.
Refusing to Be Made Whole
Disability in Black Women's Writing
A cross-disciplinary analysis on how Black women writers theorize disability and Black womanhood
Neoliberalism and Young Adult Fiction
Exceptionalism, Exploitation, and Erasure
One of the first critical volumes to examine how young adult literature reproduces but also resists neoliberalism
George Valentine Dureau
Life and Art in New Orleans
An expansive and beautiful survey of one of New Orleans’s most accomplished and provocative artists
Evanira Mendes
A Voice from the Brazilian Folklore Movement
The long-overdue recognition of a scholar and the vibrant Brazilian folklore she documented
Crossing the Pass of Clouds
An Army Photographer's Vietnam Journal
An extraordinarily up-close and personal photography collection and journal of the last years of the Vietnam War
A Tone Parallel to Duke Ellington
The Man in the Music
Ellington’s music with fresh thematic explorations to delight music lovers
Us According to Them
Stateside Portrayals of Puerto Ricans and Their Culture, 1898-2010
A thoughtful look at how mainland US observers perceive and portray Puerto Rico
The Nine O'Clock Whistle
Stories of the Freedom Struggle for Civil Rights in Enfield, North Carolina
The untold history of a small town where a stand for civil rights had lasting, wide impacts
Soul of the Court
The Trailblazing Life of Judge William Benson Bryant Sr.
The first full-length biography of a trailblazing DC attorney and judge
Prophetic Peril
The Rhetoric of Nineteenth-Century African American Prophetic-Call Narratives
A study of the call narrative storytelling tradition centered on four influential Black leaders
Lloyd Kaufman
Interviews
An extensive deep-dive omnibus from one of cinema’s most indefatigably ardent auteurs
Folk Music and Song in the WPA Ex-Slave Narratives
The first complete account of all the music, song, and dance in the WPA ex-slave narratives
Deep Roots, Broken Branches
A History and Memoir
A powerful, intimate portrait that weaves history across five generations of an American family
Conversations with Ted Kooser
Almost fifty years of interviews chronicling the Nebraska writer’s rise from a regional poet of the Great Plains to a Pulitzer Prize–winning artistic luminary
Black Saturation
Selected Works of Stephen E. Henderson
The first full-length volume to showcase the critical corpus of an eminent scholar of Black literature
Atravesados
Essays on Queer Latinx Young Adult Literature
A scholarly revelation of the Latinidades characters and works that have crossed multiple borders
Animating the Victorians
Disney's Literary History
A thorough study of the many links between the Golden Age of children’s literature and a global storytelling powerhouse
Voices and Visions
Essays on New Orleans's Literary History
An insightful survey tracing the influence of New Orleans writers, past and present, on the literary canon
Unpalatable
Stories of Pain and Pleasure in Southern Cookbooks
An examination of how narratives of suffering balance the conventions of joy and success in the southern cookbook tradition
Reading LGBTQ+ Children's Picture Books
An engaging collection of original scholarship on LGBTQ+ children’s picture books
On the Very Edge
Bidentities in Michelle Cliff’s Fiction
The first book-length study of Michelle Cliff’s entire literary corpus
Intersecting Worlds
Colonial Liminality in US Southern and Icelandic Literatures
An innovative global resituating of two literatures that intersect in revealing ways
Comics Art in Korea
The definitive volume on the rich and dynamic field of Korean comics
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The Life and Music of Booker "Bukka" White
Recalling the Blues
The first full-length biography of one of the greatest country blues performers
The Child Gaze
Narrating Resistance in American Literature
A compelling study centered on the eyes of children and their powerful lines of sight
Grotesque Progeny
The Commodification of Dangerous and Endangered Children
A detailed analysis of grotesque children and their meanings in contemporary texts for adults
Contested Kingdom
Fan Attachment and Corporate Control at Disneyland
An analysis of the thirty-year struggle between Southern Californians and the Walt Disney Company online and at Disneyland
The Making of Sylvia Plath
A unique analysis of the media, literature, and pop culture that shaped Sylvia Plath’s literary achievement
The Purple One
Prince, Race, Gender, and Everything in Between
An electric collection of essays and reflections on an enigmatic musical legend