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.
Olden Times Revisited
W. L. Clayton's Pen Pictures
A intimate collection of sixty-five articles originally published in the TupeloJournal in 1905 and 1906, in which W. L. Clayton recorded the simpler times of the southern frontier from the 1840s to the 1860s
Mississippi's Piney Woods
A Human Perspective
A groundbreaking volume in Mississippi studies in that it is an attempt to open the Piney Woods part of the state to historical and cultural scrutiny
Margaret Atwood's Fairy-Tale Sexual Politics
Intriguing investigation of fairy-tale images in Atwood’s haunting fiction, poetry, and artwork
Lockstep and Dance
Images of Black Men in Popular Culture
An examination of those who resist, wield and respond to stereotypes in literature, film, sports, and music
Fiction of the Home Place
Jewett, Cather, Glasgow, Porter, Welty, and Naylor
A study of how the works of these writers offer the empowerment of female authorship and acknowledge the woman’s community whose collective experience shapes their narratives
Feminine Sense in Southern Memoir
Smith, Glasgow, Welty, Hellman, Porter, and Hurston
Feminism and liberalism in autobiographical writings of six women of the American South
Faulkner and Welty and the Southern Literary Tradition
Valuable scholarship from a leading textual critic on southern literature
Faulkner and War
A critical exploration of the effects and influence of America’s wars upon the works of the Nobel Prize laureate
Domesticity with a Difference
The Nonfiction of Catharine Beecher, Sarah J. Hale, Fanny Fern, and Margaret Fuller
A study of works by four professional women of the nineteenth century who prescribed domestic lives for others of their sex
Conversations with Albert Murray
Blackness and Modernism
The Literary Career of John Edgar Wideman
The first comprehensive study of the prominent African American author John Edgar Wideman and his novels
A Melvin Dixon Critical Reader
The first collection of essays on literature and life from the famous African American activist and scholar
Mississippi in Africa
The Saga of the Slaves of Prospect Hill Plantation and Their Legacy in Liberia Today
The astonishing story of a planter’s will, a slave revolt, and his freed slaves’ querulous and deadly legacy in war-torn Liberia
Larry Brown and the Blue-Collar South
A critical assessment of a great Mississippi writer’s empathy with the working class
Banjo on the Mountain
Wade Mainer's First Hundred Years
The tribute to a musician whose career spans hillbilly, bluegrass, and sacred music
Hal Ashby
Interviews
Collected interviews with the director who is sometimes called the "lost genius of the New Hollywood generation" for creating such films as Harold and Maude, Being There, Shampoo, and Coming Home
Emmett Till and the Mississippi Press
An analysis of the media’s reaction to the lynching of a young black man
James Branch Cabell and Richmond-In-Virginia
In this inclusive examination of Cabell’s life and milieu, a fascinating literary figure is rescued from the literary shadows and acknowledged as a writer of major worth in the canon of American literature.
Kennedy's Blues
African-American Blues and Gospel Songs on JFK
A compilation and analysis of the many blues and gospel songs written about the inspirational president
Autobiography of a Female Slave
In a new printing, a pseudo-slave narrative published in 1856 to impel the cause of abolition