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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The Amazing Jimmi Mayes

Sideman to the Stars

University Press of Mississippi

The unforgettable life story of one amazing musician touring and playing with Jimi Hendrix, Jimmy Reed, Marvin Gaye, and many more

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Soul in Seoul

African American Popular Music and K-pop

University Press of Mississippi

How the global sensation of K-pop and Korean hip-hop draw on and expand R&B traditions

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Mississippi Poets

A Literary Guide

University Press of Mississippi

A thorough examination of the powerful poets from a mighty literary state

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Jonas Mekas

Interviews

University Press of Mississippi

Collected interviews with the director of avant-garde films such as Walden (Diaries, Notes, and Sketches); Reminiscences of a Journey to Lithuania; and As I Was Moving Ahead Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty

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John Jennings

Conversations

University Press of Mississippi

Collected interviews with the graphic designer and comic book scholar who is best known for his collaboration with Damian Duffy on the New York Times bestseller and Eisner Award–winning graphic novel adaptation of Octavia Butler’s Kindred

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Hollywood Hates Hitler!

Jew-Baiting, Anti-Nazism, and the Senate Investigation into Warmongering in Motion Pictures

University Press of Mississippi

The first book-length study of the investigation into Hollywood’s anti-Nazi films

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Haunted Property

Slavery and the Gothic

University Press of Mississippi

A critical examination of the role of property in gothic literature depicting slavery

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Critical Directions in Comics Studies

Edited by Thomas Giddens
University Press of Mississippi

An examination of the cutting-edge critical engagement in the field of modern comics studies

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Conversations with Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Edited by Daria Tunca
University Press of Mississippi

Collected interviews with the widely acclaimed African writer and outspoken intellectual who is known for her insightful fiction, viral TED talks, and essays on feminism

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Can’t Be Faded

Twenty Years in the New Orleans Brass Band Game

By Kyle DeCoste and Stooges Brass Band
University Press of Mississippi

A collaborative blast of history and inspiration from top-of-the-line musicians

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José Ferrer

Success and Survival

University Press of Mississippi

The first major biography of the Puerto Rican director and Tony- and Oscar-winning actor

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In Faulkner's Shadow

A Memoir

University Press of Mississippi

An amusing, honest, and sympathetic account of literary rivalries and family feuds in Faulkner’s hometown

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Voices from the Mississippi Hill Country

The Benton County Civil Rights Movement

University Press of Mississippi

An in-depth oral and hyperlocal history of a rural county and its fight for civil rights

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Troubling Masculinities

Terror, Gender, and Monstrous Others in American Film Post-9/11

University Press of Mississippi

A challenge to claims about the popular project of masculine redemption in recent genre films

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Taking Flight

Caribbean Women Writing from Abroad

University Press of Mississippi

A groundbreaking exploration of the impact of trauma based on gender, sexuality, and race across the Anglophone Caribbean

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New Critical Essays on Toni Morrison's God Help the Child

Race, Culture, and History

University Press of Mississippi

The first scholarly collection to examine Morrison's most recent work of fiction, God Help the Child

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Conversations with Joanna Scott

Edited by Michael Lackey
University Press of Mississippi

Collected interviews with a critically acclaimed and award-winning writer who is known for her jolting and illuminating fiction

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Comic Art in Museums

Edited by Kim A. Munson
University Press of Mississippi

A comprehensive history of how comics and comic art gained recognition as art

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Clothing and Fashion in Southern History

Edited by Ted Ownby and Becca Walton; Afterword by Jonathan Prude
University Press of Mississippi

The first volume to closely study the history of clothing and its relationship to work, power, and identity in the South

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A Sojourn in Paradise

Jack Robinson in 1950s New Orleans

University Press of Mississippi

A celebration of the New Orleans life and early career of famed fashion photographer Jack Robinson.

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Table Lands

Food in Children's Literature

University Press of Mississippi

An exploration of the symbolic role food plays in children’s literature

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Michael Haneke

Interviews

University Press of Mississippi

Collected interviews with the director of The Seventh Continent, Funny Games, Amour, and his most recent feature, Happy End

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Graphic Indigeneity

Comics in the Americas and Australasia

University Press of Mississippi

How comics in the Americas and Oceania have misconstrued, transformed, and reconstructed Indigenous stories

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Cooperatives in New Orleans

Collective Action and Urban Development

University Press of Mississippi

A potent history of a most vital contributor to urban growth in New Orleans

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Conversations with Graham Swift

University Press of Mississippi

Collected interviews with the author of the Booker Prize–winning novel Last Orders and Waterland

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Children's Books on the Big Screen

University Press of Mississippi

A critical volume dedicated to children's film adaptation

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Vintage Postcards from the African World

In the Dignity of Their Work and the Joy of Their Play

University Press of Mississippi

An extraordinary view of the bounty of Africa and its diaspora

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Coming Out of the Magnolia Closet

Same-Sex Couples in Mississippi

University Press of Mississippi

An intimate portrait that shifts the narrative of what gay life looks like in the rural South

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Stone Motel

Memoirs of a Cajun Boy

University Press of Mississippi

Dispatches from the childhood of a Louisiana son raised in a roadside motel.

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The Short Stories of Frank Yerby

University Press of Mississippi

Gathered together for the first time, a collection of the little-known but groundbreaking African American writer

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Rediscovering Frank Yerby

Critical Essays

Edited by Matthew Teutsch
University Press of Mississippi

The first book-length sounding of the major contributions of the first black American novelist to sell more than a million copies

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Monstrous Women in Comics

University Press of Mississippi

A critical volume on the ways women are made monstrous in popular culture

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Maroons and the Marooned

Runaways and Castaways in the Americas

University Press of Mississippi

A provocative juxtaposition of escaped slaves and the shipwrecked across the Americas

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Conversations with John Banville

University Press of Mississippi

Collected interviews with the author of Long Lankin, Mrs. Osmond, and The Sea, the last of which won the Man Booker Prize

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William Friedkin

Interviews

University Press of Mississippi

Collected interviews with the Academy Award–winning director of the critically and commercially successful films The French Connection and The Exorcist

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Till Death Do Us Part

American Ethnic Cemeteries as Borders Uncrossed

University Press of Mississippi

A comprehensive study of how burial customs highlight social status and class

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The War on Poverty in Mississippi

From Massive Resistance to New Conservatism

University Press of Mississippi

How the war on poverty galvanized and transformed white defiance

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The Life of Dick Haymes

No More Little White Lies

University Press of Mississippi

A biography of the superstar crooner, his rise, fall, and struggle for a second act

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Nerds, Goths, Geeks, and Freaks

Outsiders in Chicanx and Latinx Young Adult Literature

University Press of Mississippi

Amuch-needed intervention into the critical study of Chicanx and Latinx young adult literature

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Beyond the Blockbusters

Themes and Trends in Contemporary Young Adult Fiction

University Press of Mississippi

A necessary expansion of the lens and landscape of young adult literature

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With Great Power Comes Great Pedagogy

Teaching, Learning, and Comics

University Press of Mississippi

An unparalleled gathering of top educators, comics artists, and writers advocating the vital utility of comics in the classroom

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With Great Power Comes Great Pedagogy

Teaching, Learning, and Comics

University Press of Mississippi

An unparalleled gathering of top educators, comics artists, and writers advocating the vital utility of comics in the classroom

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Sweet Bitter Blues

Washington, DC's Homemade Blues

University Press of Mississippi

The first-ever account of the Washington, DC, blues scene

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Reading Testimony, Witnessing Trauma

Confronting Race, Gender, and Violence in American Literature

University Press of Mississippi

An extraordinary engagement with trauma and its witness across American literature

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Ms. Marvel's America

No Normal

University Press of Mississippi

An in-depth exploration of the current Ms. Marvel, Kamala Khan

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Delta Epiphany

Robert F. Kennedy in Mississippi

University Press of Mississippi

The story of Robert F. Kennedy’s consequential visit to the Mississippi Delta

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American Antebellum Fiddling

University Press of Mississippi

The only book solely about antebellum American fiddling

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Black Feelings

Race and Affect in the Long Sixties

University Press of Mississippi

How the black liberation movement confronted ideologies of progress and equality through emotional discourse

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The Last Days of Sylvia Plath

University Press of Mississippi

A new, vivid account of the final months of the esteemed writer’s life

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Dancing Man

A Broadway Choreographer's Journey

University Press of Mississippi

The ultimate insider’s scoop on the most popular shows in Broadway history

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