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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Selected Writings
A treasury of hard-to-find stories, essays, tributes, and humor from a literary master
From Madea to Media Mogul
Theorizing Tyler Perry
Essays on the seemingly unstoppable writer, producer, director, actor, and entrepreneur Tyler Perry
Consuming Identity
The Role of Food in Redefining the South
How food serves as a rhetorical catalyst for discussion in a culture that loves to eat, share, and talk
Aaron Henry
The Fire Ever Burning
The memoir of a fearless black leader in the civil rights struggle in Mississippi
The Films of Mira Nair
Diaspora Verite
The first full-length study of the Indian American filmmaker’s extraordinary cinema
Conversations with Neil Gaiman
Collected interviews with the multi-talented and critically acclaimed writer behind the award-winning series, The Sandman andthe novels Neverwhere, Coraline, and American Gods
Books of the Dead
Reading the Zombie in Contemporary Literature
From The Walking Dead to World War Z, a serious study of the zombie in literature
The Mississippi Gulf Coast
A captivating photographic exploration of Mississippi’s Gulf Coast
French Quarter Manual
An Architectural Guide to New Orleans’s Vieux Carré
A handbook for discovering the architectural gems in the Vieux Carré of New Orleans
Crooked River City
The Musical Life of Nashville's William Pursell
A biography of one of Nashville’s most influential and unique musicians