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.
Inventing Benjy
William Faulkner’s Most Splendid Creative Leap
The newly translated analysis of one of the most innovative protagonists ever created in American modernism
Conversations with Sarah Schulman
Thirty years of interviews spanning the career of the novelist, screenwriter, and gay activist whose works include After Delores and Maggie Terry
Black Hibiscus
African Americans and the Florida Imaginary
An exploration of the significant literary and cultural contributions from African Americans in the Sunshine State
Bayou Harvest
Subsistence Practice in Coastal Louisiana
An in-depth study of the power and pride of cooking, hunting, harvesting, foraging, and thriving in coastal Louisiana
The Delta in the Rearview Mirror
The Life and Death of Mississippi's First Winery
A firsthand account of the splendid rise and frightening fall of Mississippi’s first winery
Tending to the Past
Selfhood and Culture in Children's Narratives about Slavery and Freedom
How Black writers have circumvented stereotypes to positively portray Black survival, creativity, and autonomy to young readers
Sports and the Racial Divide, Volume II
A Legacy of African American Athletic Activism
New perspectives on the ways Black athletes wield their sports platform to address inequalities
Sounding Our Way Home
Japanese American Musicking and the Politics of Identity
A generation-spanning history of music making and the sense of belonging it engenders
See Justice Done
The Problem of Law in the African American Literary Tradition
An analysis of the fraught relations between Black writing and the law
Dorothy Arzner
Interviews
Insights into the career of one of Golden Age Hollywood’s first and most prolific female directors who was best known for The Bride Wore Red