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.
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
Spiritualism in Nineteenth-Century New Orleans
The Life and Times of Henry Louis Rey
Extraordinary insight into Creoles of color and their religious culture
Graphic Novels for Children and Young Adults
A Collection of Critical Essays
An examination of the tremendous influence and power of US comics for youth in the twenty-first century
The Jazz Pilgrimage of Gerald Wilson
The journey of an innovative musical legend who fused Latin sounds and jazz