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.
Conversations with Robert Stone
Collected interviews with the contemporary American author of A Hall of Mirrors, Dog Soldiers, Damascas Gate, and other novels
Quentin Tarantino
Poetics and Politics of Cinematic Metafiction
The first in-depth study of metafiction in Tarantino’s films
The African American Sonnet
A Literary History
A thoughtful survey of striking poems from the Civil War to the present
The Racial Divide in American Medicine
Black Physicians and the Struggle for Justice in Health Care
An exposure to the long history of separation, isolation, disparities, and eventual healing in southern health care
David O. Russell
Interviews
Collected interviews with the American filmmaker whose work spans multiple genres and features radically differing aesthetic styles
Jazz in China
From Dance Hall Music to Individual Freedom of Expression
A monumental study of the history of jazz in China from its beginnings to today
Realizing Our Place
Real Southern Women in a Mythologized Land
An examination of the role myths of southern womanhood play in real women’s lives in the Mississippi Delta
The Yoruba God of Drumming
Transatlantic Perspectives on the Wood That Talks
From scholars and practitioners, a collaborative collection about the power of the orisha of drumming
The Construction of Whiteness
An Interdisciplinary Analysis of Race Formation and the Meaning of a White Identity
A critical engagement with the origins, power, and elusiveness of white privilege
Caribbean Masala
Indian Identity in Guyana and Trinidad
How Indian descendants maintained their culture and grew their influence in the Caribbean
A Cajun Girl's Sharecropping Years
A female perspective of sharecropping life
Gary Larson and The Far Side
The first critical assessment of an American icon’s lasting achievement
Contesting Post-Racialism
Conflicted Churches in the United States and South Africa
Through the window of congregations, the landscape within churches after racial conflict
Comics and Adaptation
How comics are adapted from literary sources as well as brought to the screen
Builders of a New South
Merchants, Capital, and the Remaking of Natchez, 1865–1914
An account of the business lives of freedmen, whites, plantation and store owners in a thriving, Deep South commercial center
John Cassavetes
Interviews
Collected interviews with the American filmmaker whose contributions as an actor, a writer, a director, a producer, and a cinematographer, at a time of radical changes in cinema history, continue to inspire independent filmmakers to challenge creative restrictions and celebrate actors’ artistic contributions
Jim Shooter
Conversations
Collected interviews spanning the career of an American comic book writer, editor, and businessman who remains among the most important figures in the history of the medium
Faulkner and the Black Literatures of the Americas
The dynamic interplay between the work of the Nobel laureate and black writers
Conversations with James Salter
Interviews published from 1972 to 2014 with the award-winning author of The Hunters, A Sport and a Pastime, Light Years, and All That Is
This Woman's Work
The Writing and Activism of Bebe Moore Campbell
A critical biography of the novelist and champion for mental health issues
The Know Nothings in Louisiana
A surprising history of political success for the nativist, anti-Catholic movement
Alternate Roots
Ethnicity, Race, and Identity in Genealogy Media
How popular media cultivates genealogy but buries its cultural context
Walking Raddy
The Baby Dolls of New Orleans
Scholars and artists respond to the modern resurgence of the Baby Doll tradition
Sweet Spots
In-Between Spaces in New Orleans
A vibrant exploration of the Crescent City’s distinctive in-between spaces
Paul Verhoeven
Interviews
This collection of interviews covers every phase of the director’s career, beginning with six newly translated Dutch newspaper interviews dating back to 1968 and ending with a set of previously unpublished interviews dedicated to his most recent work.
When They Blew the Levee
Race, Politics, and Community in Pinhook, Missouri
How invisible citizens preserve their community when their town is destroyed
That Was Entertainment
The Golden Age of the MGM Musical
The extraordinary story of Arthur Freed and the mighty musical genius of MGM
Conversations with Gordon Lish
Interviews published from 1965 to 2015 with one of the most influential and controversial figures in modern American letters
Consuming Katrina
Public Disaster and Personal Narrative
An analysis of mismanaged representation and response after disasters
Southern White Ministers and the Civil Rights Movement
A study of white ministers who risked their pulpits and lives to challenge southern society
Riding with Death
Vodou Art and Urban Ecology in the Streets of Port-au-Prince
The extraordinary story of sculptors and their incredible creations in Haiti
Peter Kuper
Conversations
Collected interviews that address such varied topics as the nuts and bolts of creating graphic novels, world travels, teaching at Harvard University, Hollywood deal-making, climate change, Spy vs. Spy, New York City in the 1970s and 1980s, Mad magazine, and World War 3 Illustrated
Mothers in Children's and Young Adult Literature
From the Eighteenth Century to Postfeminism
From didactic nursery rhymes to Coraline and The Hunger Games, an engagement with the vital figure of the mother
Conversations with W. S. Merwin
Interviews with the former United States Poet Laureate
Conversations with Edwidge Danticat
Collected interviews ranging from the 2000 publication of this award-winning Haitian-American author’s debut work of fiction, Breath, Eyes, Memory, to a personal interview conducted with the volume editor in 2016
Charley Patton
Voice of the Mississippi Delta
Spirited takes on a blues powerhouse and his legacy
Southern Writers on Writing
A collection of essays for writers, readers, and lovers of all things southern
Sterling Hayden's Wars
A biography of a master sailor, war hero, and one of the most unusual and troubled stars of the Golden Era of Hollywood
Faulkner in the Twenty-First Century
A turn-of-the-century map of where Faulkner studies have traveled and where they are headed
Invisible Ball of Dreams
Literary Representations of Baseball behind the Color Line
How novels, plays, films, poems, and children’s literature fill the archival gaps in Black baseball’s story
Posthumanism in Young Adult Fiction
Finding Humanity in a Posthuman World
A tracking of the fascinating connections between adolescence and the concerns of posthumanism
Working-Class Comic Book Heroes
Class Conflict and Populist Politics in Comics
The first book to tackle the blue-collar hero and working-class creators
Reading Lessons in Seeing
Mirrors, Masks, and Mazes in the Autobiographical Graphic Novel
How embedded methods of creation dynamically affect meaning in comics
Mississippi John Hurt
His Life, His Times, His Blues
The first biography of the blues revival’s most influential and authentic musician
Conversations with Will D. Campbell
The first collection of interviews with the preacher, activist, and author of Brother to a Dragonfly and Forty Acres and a Goat
Forty Acres and a Goat
A call with no steeple from the preacher with no pulpit
The Comics of Charles Schulz
The Good Grief of Modern Life
An unparalleled gathering of research devoted to one of the world’s most influential comic strips
Stephen Sondheim and the Reinvention of the American Musical
How the preeminent Broadway composer bridged the gap between Rodgers and Hammerstein and postmodernism