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.
Moving Pictures, Migrating Identities
A close reading of international films that focus on diaspora and exile
Joseph E. Davis
Pioneer Patriarch
A closely observed view of the nineteenth-century South in a biography of the Confederate president’s elder brother
Gender and the Southern Body Politic
A re-examination of notable subjects in southern history through the unique lens of gender
Faulkner on the Color Line
The Later Novels
A study of William Faulkner’s final phase as a period in which he faced up to America’s rigid protocols of racial ideology
Faulkner and Race
Essays that focus on a theme central to understanding William Faulkner’s works and illuminate his various stances on race
Defining Travel
Diverse Visions
Connecting Times
The Sixties in Afro-American Fiction
A stimulating study of 1960s black literature that sees American history through the literary art that rose out of the painful conflicts of Black Power, Vietnam, and the Civil Rights Movement
C. L. R. James and Creolization
Circles of Influence
A study that unites James and the individual pieces of his work in the full perspective of his thought
Born in the U.S.A.
The Myths of America in Popular Music from Colonial Times to the Present
The vision of America seen through the lyrics of its popular songs
Affect and Power
Essays on Sex, Slavery, Race, and Religion in Appreciation of Winthrop D. Jordan
An anthology honoring the work of the influential historian Winthrop D. Jordan
Buster Keaton
Interviews
Interviews with one of the most iconic stars of Hollywood’s silent and early sound eras
Words into Images
Screenwriters on the Studio System
An unprecedented view of Hollywood’s Golden Age
Rodolphe Töpffer
The Complete Comic Strips
The first English-language edition of the premier comic artist’s work
Hands in the Till
Embezzlement of Public Monies in Mississippi
The Circle of Guilt
A famed psychiatrist’s view of race, mass media, and a rush to judgment in New York City
The Beatles
Image and the Media
A study of the forces that transformed four Liverpool musicians into icons for the 1960s
Father of the Comic Strip
Rodolphe Töpffer
A critical study of the Swiss artist who created the comic strip
Jimmie Rodgers
The Life and Times of America's Blue Yodeler
The definitive biography of the “Father of Country Music”
Sacred and Profane
Voice and Vision in Southern Self-Taught Art
A sustained critical assessment of southern folk art and self-taught art and artists
Race, Reform, and Rebellion
The Second Reconstruction and Beyond in Black America, 1945-2006, Third Edition
An update of one of the indispensable political and social histories of African Americans since World War II
Conversations with Larry Brown
Interviews with the author of Dirty Work, Father and Son, Joe, and Big Bad Love
Clarence John Laughlin
Prophet without Honor
A biography of a New Orleans photographer of worldwide acclaim
Multiparty Politics in Mississippi, 1877-1902
A revisionary study of Mississippi’s late nineteenth-century image as a one-party state of Democrats
Lotus Among the Magnolias
The Mississippi Chinese
A study showing how the Mississippi Chinese expanded their social and economic potential and moved away from restrictive beginnings
The University of Mississippi School of Law
A Sesquicentennial History
The story of one of the state’s formative institutions
Ed McGowin, Name Change
One Artist, Twelve Personas, Thirty-five Years
An overview of creations from the many identities of one artist
Where Have All the Flower Children Gone?
Firsthand accounts of how life unfolded for the youth of the Age of Aquarius
Dunlap
The first full-length book heralding this renowned artist’s achievements
Ghost Hunters of the South
From across Dixie, profiles of irrepressible investigators of the paranormal
Andrei Tarkovsky
Interviews
A collection of interviews with the Russian filmmaker who directed Andrei Roublev, Solaris, and The Mirror
Sam Myers
The Blues Is My Story
A house-rocking blues life story of the late Mississippi-born front man of Anson Funderburgh and the Rockets
Odd-Egg Editor
Remembering the sting of male discrimination she repeatedly endured during her career as a newspaper-woman, the author wistfully recalls the hurt of being overlooked, snubbed, and ribbed by her male colleagues
Coming to Colorado
A Young Immigrant's Journey to Become an American Flyer
The inspiring sequel to German Boy: A Refugee’s Story
20 over 40
Stories about the unique perils and tensions of middle age
The Coen Brothers
Interviews
Collected interviews with the quirky and distinctive writer/director team of such films as Raising Arizona, Intolerable Cruelty, and Barton Fink
Tim Hector
A Caribbean Radical's Story
The first biography of the influential Antiguan journalist and follower of C. L. R. James
The New Blue Music
Changes in Rhythm & Blues, 1950–1999
A study that finds African influences of melody, harmony, rhythm, and form in the top 25 songs from each decade of R&B
Carl Barks and the Disney Comic Book
Unmasking the Myth of Modernity
The first full-length critical study of the genius who created Duckburg and Uncle Scrooge
Shelby Foote
A Writer's Life
A biography that plumbs the ambiguous life of the gentlemanly novelist and historian
Richard Wright's Travel Writings
New Reflections
From multinational perspectives, a study of Wright’s innovative travel literature and its politics of postcolonialism
Reading Faulkner
Collected Stories
For readers and critics, a guide to the Nobel Laureate’s short stories
Perspectives on Wole Soyinka
Freedom and Complexity
Essays that examine the aesthetics and the radical politics of one of Africa’s greatest writers
La Salle and His Legacy
Frenchmen and Indians in the Lower Mississippi Valley
In this collection of essays that marked the tricentennial of La Salle’s expedition, thirteen scholars assess his legacy and the significance of French colonialism in the Southeast
Faulkner and Religion
The papers published here conclude that the key to religious meaning in Faulkner may be that his texts focus not so much on God but on a human aspiration of the divine