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.
Clothing and Fashion in Southern History
The first volume to closely study the history of clothing and its relationship to work, power, and identity in the South
A Sojourn in Paradise
Jack Robinson in 1950s New Orleans
A celebration of the New Orleans life and early career of famed fashion photographer Jack Robinson.
Table Lands
Food in Children's Literature
An exploration of the symbolic role food plays in children’s literature
Michael Haneke
Interviews
Collected interviews with the director of The Seventh Continent, Funny Games,Amour,and his most recent feature, Happy End
Graphic Indigeneity
Comics in the Americas and Australasia
How comics in the Americas and Oceania have misconstrued, transformed, and reconstructed Indigenous stories
Cooperatives in New Orleans
Collective Action and Urban Development
A potent history of a most vital contributor to urban growth in New Orleans
Conversations with Graham Swift
Collected interviews with the author of the Booker Prize–winning novel Last Orders and Waterland
Children's Books on the Big Screen
A critical volume dedicated to children’s film adaptation
Vintage Postcards from the African World
In the Dignity of Their Work and the Joy of Their Play
An extraordinary view of the bounty of Africa and its diaspora
Coming Out of the Magnolia Closet
Same-Sex Couples in Mississippi
An intimate portrait that shifts the narrative of what gay life looks like in the rural South
Stone Motel
Memoirs of a Cajun Boy
Dispatches from the childhood of a Louisiana son raised in a roadside motel.
The Short Stories of Frank Yerby
Gathered together for the first time, a collection of the little-known but groundbreaking African American writer
Rediscovering Frank Yerby
Critical Essays
The first book-length sounding of the major contributions of the first black American novelist to sell more than a million copies
Monstrous Women in Comics
A critical volume on the ways women are made monstrous in popular culture
Maroons and the Marooned
Runaways and Castaways in the Americas
A provocative juxtaposition of escaped slaves and the shipwrecked across the Americas
Conversations with John Banville
Collected interviews with the author of Long Lankin, Mrs. Osmond, and The Sea, the last of which won the Man Booker Prize
William Friedkin
Interviews
Collected interviews with the Academy Award–winning director of the critically and commercially successful films The French Connection and The Exorcist
Till Death Do Us Part
American Ethnic Cemeteries as Borders Uncrossed
A comprehensive study of how burial customs highlight social status and class
The War on Poverty in Mississippi
From Massive Resistance to New Conservatism
How the war on poverty galvanized and transformed white defiance
The Life of Dick Haymes
No More Little White Lies
A biography of the superstar crooner, his rise, fall, and struggle for a second act
Nerds, Goths, Geeks, and Freaks
Outsiders in Chicanx and Latinx Young Adult Literature
Amuch-needed intervention into the critical study of Chicanx and Latinx young adult literature
Beyond the Blockbusters
Themes and Trends in Contemporary Young Adult Fiction
A necessary expansion of the lens and landscape of young adult literature
With Great Power Comes Great Pedagogy
Teaching, Learning, and Comics
An unparalleled gathering of top educators, comics artists, and writers advocating the vital utility of comics in the classroom
With Great Power Comes Great Pedagogy
Teaching, Learning, and Comics
An unparalleled gathering of top educators, comics artists, and writers advocating the vital utility of comics in the classroom
Sweet Bitter Blues
Washington, DC's Homemade Blues
The first-ever account of the Washington, DC, blues scene
Reading Testimony, Witnessing Trauma
Confronting Race, Gender, and Violence in American Literature
An extraordinary engagement with trauma and its witness across American literature
Ms. Marvel's America
No Normal
An in-depth exploration of the current Ms. Marvel, Kamala Khan
Delta Epiphany
Robert F. Kennedy in Mississippi
The story of Robert F. Kennedy’s consequential visit to the Mississippi Delta
American Antebellum Fiddling
The only book solely about antebellum American fiddling
Black Feelings
Race and Affect in the Long Sixties
How the black liberation movement confronted ideologies of progress and equality through emotional discourse
The Last Days of Sylvia Plath
A new, vivid account of the final months of the esteemed writer’s life
Dancing Man
A Broadway Choreographer's Journey
The ultimate insider’s scoop on the most popular shows in Broadway history
Cuba hasta siempre
An award-winning photographer’s vivid images of the island country
The Possible South
Documentary Film and the Limitations of Biraciality
How documentary film explodes common discourses of a South divided only by black and white
The Last Seat in the House
The Story of Hanley Sound
A history of the first sound engineer to jam sprawling festivals and rock whole stadiums
Subversive Spirits
The Female Ghost in British and American Popular Culture
How some women find their greatest powers narrating after death
Southern Literature, Cold War Culture, and the Making of Modern America
A thorough exploration of the South’s lasting impact on American life
Professional Wrestling
Sport and Spectacle, Second Edition
Timely updates to the first book to look at professional wrestling as a theatrical performance
How the Other Half Laughs
The Comic Sensibility in American Culture, 1895-1920
A much-needed examination of how the newspaper comic strip transformed US culture
Graphic Novels as Philosophy
How graphic novels expand philosophy and how philosophy illuminates the graphic novel
Conversations with William T. Vollmann
Collected interviews with the writer of fiction, journalism, ethnography, and history whose book, Europe Central, won the National Book Award for Fiction
Claude Chabrol
Interviews
Collected interviews with the French director of influential New Wave films such as Le Beau Serge, Les Cousins, and Les Bonnes Femmes
Blake Edwards
Interviews
A long-overdue collection of interviews with the multitalented and versatile writer, director, and producer of such films as Days of Wine and Roses, Breakfast at Tiffany’s, Victor/Victoria, and the Pink Panther franchise
Animating the Spirited
Journeys and Transformations
How anime and animation involve and transport viewers to be spirited away
Truth and Consequences
Game Shows in Fiction and Film
A critical study on how the dynamics of game shows are impacting America’s culture
The Supervillain Reader
A fascinating exploration of the history, politics, and aesthetics of supervillains
The New Territory
Ralph Ellison and the Twenty-First Century
A critical advancement and recognition of the enduring power of a great American writer
The Comics of Alison Bechdel
From the Outside In
The first critical volume on a crucial voice in comics
The Bad Sixties
Hollywood Memories of the Counterculture, Antiwar, and Black Power Movements
An exposure of how mainstream film and television wilts flower power and diffuses the potency of protest
Martin R. Delany's Civil War and Reconstruction
A Primary Source Reader
A documentary history of a radical thinker and African American firebrand