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.

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Daniel Clowes

Conversations

Edited by Ken Parille and Isaac Cates
University Press of Mississippi

Collected interviews with the alternative artist who created Lloyd Llewellyn and Eightball comics, as well as screenplays for Ghost World and Art School Confidential

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Oraien Catledge

Photographs

University Press of Mississippi

The celebration of a life's work in fine art photography

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Sacred Light

Holy Places in Louisiana

University Press of Mississippi

A decade’s worth of fine art photography taken in the most divine spaces of an elegantly devout state

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Guy Maddin

Interviews

Edited by D. K. Holm
University Press of Mississippi

Collected interviews with the award-winning Canadian director of such films as The Dead Father and Careful

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Women Writers of the Contemporary South

University Press of Mississippi

Evidence that the most notable fiction writers of the contemporary South very well may be women writers

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Witness to Injustice

By David Frost; Edited by Louise Westling; Introduction by Charles Reagan Wilson
University Press of Mississippi

A black moonshiner and civil rights activist’s autobiographical report on complex events in southern history neglected by white historians

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Why I Left America and Other Essays

University Press of Mississippi

An African-American artist, self-exiled behind the Iron Curtain, gives his unique perspective on his homeland and on the culture that produced him

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Wallace Stevens and Literary Canons

University Press of Mississippi

A revealing study tracing the mechanism of literary evaluation by which the work of Wallace Stevens became a central and revered part of the treasury of modern American poetry

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Troubling Violence

A Performance Project

University Press of Mississippi

A study of a performing troupe in which women narrate the trauma of domestic violence

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The New Deal and the South

University Press of Mississippi

The first comprehensive treatment of the impact of the Roosevelt recovery program on the South

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The Guitar in America

Victorian Era to Jazz Age

University Press of Mississippi

From parlor instrument to jazz electric, a study of musical evolution in America’s progressive era

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The Fruits of Integration

Black Middle-Class Ideology and Culture, 1960-1990

University Press of Mississippi
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Straight White Male

Performance Art Monologues

University Press of Mississippi

An engaging exploration of the white heterosexual male as portrayed by professional monologists

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Sidelines Activist

Charles S. Johnson and the Struggle for Civil Rights

University Press of Mississippi

The biography of the president of Fisk University and his role as a precursor of racial change in America

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Olden Times Revisited

W. L. Clayton's Pen Pictures

University Press of Mississippi

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

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Mississippi's Piney Woods

A Human Perspective

Edited by Noel Polk
University Press of Mississippi

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

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Margaret Atwood's Fairy-Tale Sexual Politics

University Press of Mississippi

Intriguing investigation of fairy-tale images in Atwood’s haunting fiction, poetry, and artwork

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Lockstep and Dance

Images of Black Men in Popular Culture

University Press of Mississippi

An examination of those who resist, wield and respond to stereotypes in literature, film, sports, and music

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Fiction of the Home Place

Jewett, Cather, Glasgow, Porter, Welty, and Naylor

University Press of Mississippi

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

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Feminine Sense in Southern Memoir

Smith, Glasgow, Welty, Hellman, Porter, and Hurston

University Press of Mississippi

Feminism and liberalism in autobiographical writings of six women of the American South

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Faulkner and Welty and the Southern Literary Tradition

University Press of Mississippi

Valuable scholarship from a leading textual critic on southern literature

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Faulkner and War

Edited by Noel Polk and Ann J. Abadie
University Press of Mississippi

A critical exploration of the effects and influence of America’s wars upon the works of the Nobel Prize laureate

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Domesticity with a Difference

The Nonfiction of Catharine Beecher, Sarah J. Hale, Fanny Fern, and Margaret Fuller

University Press of Mississippi

A study of works by four professional women of the nineteenth century who prescribed domestic lives for others of their sex

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Conversations with Albert Murray

University Press of Mississippi
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Blackness and Modernism

The Literary Career of John Edgar Wideman

University Press of Mississippi

The first comprehensive study of the prominent African American author John Edgar Wideman and his novels

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A Melvin Dixon Critical Reader

University Press of Mississippi

The first collection of essays on literature and life from the famous African American activist and scholar

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Mississippi in Africa

The Saga of the Slaves of Prospect Hill Plantation and Their Legacy in Liberia Today

University Press of Mississippi

The astonishing story of a planter’s will, a slave revolt, and his freed slaves’ querulous and deadly legacy in war-torn Liberia

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Larry Brown and the Blue-Collar South

Edited by Jean W. Cash and Keith Perry; Foreword by Rick Bass
University Press of Mississippi

A critical assessment of a great Mississippi writer’s empathy with the working class

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Banjo on the Mountain

Wade Mainer's First Hundred Years

University Press of Mississippi

The tribute to a musician whose career spans hillbilly, bluegrass, and sacred music

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Hal Ashby

Interviews

Edited by Nick Dawson
University Press of Mississippi

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

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Emmett Till and the Mississippi Press

University Press of Mississippi

An analysis of the media’s reaction to the lynching of a young black man

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James Branch Cabell and Richmond-In-Virginia

University Press of Mississippi

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.

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Kennedy's Blues

African-American Blues and Gospel Songs on JFK

By Guido van Rijn; Foreword by Brian Ward
University Press of Mississippi

A compilation and analysis of the many blues and gospel songs written about the inspirational president

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Autobiography of a Female Slave

By Mattie Griffith; Afterword by Joe Lockard
University Press of Mississippi

In a new printing, a pseudo-slave narrative published in 1856 to impel the cause of abolition

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A Hard Rain Fell

SDS and Why it Failed

University Press of Mississippi

This book traces the Students for a Democratic Society in their relation to other movements and demonstrates that the New Left’s dissolution flowed directly from SDS’s failure to break with traditional American notions of race, sex, and empire.

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Weapons of Mississippi

University Press of Mississippi

A history of weaponry used to defend, attack, suppress, and stalk over the centuries

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Conversations with Octavia Butler

University Press of Mississippi

The first collection of interviews with the Nebula and Hugo Award-winning author of Kindred, Parable of the Sower, Fledgling, and Bloodchild

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Atom Egoyan

Interviews

Edited by T. J. Morris
University Press of Mississippi

Collected interviews with the Canadian director of such acclaimed films as The Sweet Hereafter, Felicia’s Journey, and Exotica

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Lost Churches of Mississippi

University Press of Mississippi

A richly illustrated history of over one hundred sacred structures lost to disaster, demolition, or abandonment

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Conversations with Ian McEwan

Edited by Ryan Roberts
University Press of Mississippi
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Down on the Batture

University Press of Mississippi

An extended meditation on a lively slip of river wilderness abutting the Mississippi River

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Beyond Paradise

The Life of Ramon Novarro

University Press of Mississippi

A biography of the religious and deeply closeted rival to Rudolph Valentino

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Dreaming in Clay on the Coast of Mississippi

Love and Art at Shearwater

University Press of Mississippi

The story of Shearwater Pottery and the Anderson family’s artful enterprise

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MuzikMafia

From the Local Nashville Scene to the National Mainstream

University Press of Mississippi

How a group of industry outsiders became popular music sensations

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Urbane Revolutionary

C. L. R. James and the Struggle for a New Society

University Press of Mississippi

A comprehensive study of the writings of a pivotal Caribbean intellectual

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Shadowing Ralph Ellison

University Press of Mississippi

A critical study of the writings and thought of the American literary genius and his blues and jazz derived “vernacular” aesthetic

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Perspectives on Barry Hannah

Edited by Martyn Bone
University Press of Mississippi

A career-spanning examination of a masterful fiction writer’s output

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Freedom Walk

Mississippi or Bust

University Press of Mississippi

The historic account of how a determined white postal worker became one of the earliest martyrs in the civil rights movement

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The Comics of Chris Ware

Drawing Is a Way of Thinking

University Press of Mississippi

An assessment of the achievement and aesthetic of one of America’s brightest comics innovators

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