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.
With Great Power Comes Great Pedagogy
Teaching, Learning, and Comics
An unparalleled gathering of top educators, comics artists, and writers advocating the vital utility of comics in the classroom
Sweet Bitter Blues
Washington, DC's Homemade Blues
The first-ever account of the Washington, DC, blues scene
Reading Testimony, Witnessing Trauma
Confronting Race, Gender, and Violence in American Literature
An extraordinary engagement with trauma and its witness across American literature
Ms. Marvel's America
No Normal
An in-depth exploration of the current Ms. Marvel, Kamala Khan
Delta Epiphany
Robert F. Kennedy in Mississippi
The story of Robert F. Kennedy’s consequential visit to the Mississippi Delta
American Antebellum Fiddling
The only book solely about antebellum American fiddling
Black Feelings
Race and Affect in the Long Sixties
How the black liberation movement confronted ideologies of progress and equality through emotional discourse
The Last Days of Sylvia Plath
A new, vivid account of the final months of the esteemed writer’s life
Dancing Man
A Broadway Choreographer's Journey
The ultimate insider’s scoop on the most popular shows in Broadway history
Cuba hasta siempre
An award-winning photographer’s vivid images of the island country
The Possible South
Documentary Film and the Limitations of Biraciality
How documentary film explodes common discourses of a South divided only by black and white
The Last Seat in the House
The Story of Hanley Sound
A history of the first sound engineer to jam sprawling festivals and rock whole stadiums
Subversive Spirits
The Female Ghost in British and American Popular Culture
How some women find their greatest powers narrating after death
Southern Literature, Cold War Culture, and the Making of Modern America
A thorough exploration of the South’s lasting impact on American life
Professional Wrestling
Sport and Spectacle, Second Edition
Timely updates to the first book to look at professional wrestling as a theatrical performance
How the Other Half Laughs
The Comic Sensibility in American Culture, 1895-1920
A much-needed examination of how the newspaper comic strip transformed US culture
Graphic Novels as Philosophy
How graphic novels expand philosophy and how philosophy illuminates the graphic novel
Conversations with William T. Vollmann
Collected interviews with the writer of fiction, journalism, ethnography, and history whose book, Europe Central, won the National Book Award for Fiction
Claude Chabrol
Interviews
Collected interviews with the French director of influential New Wave films such as Le Beau Serge, Les Cousins, and Les Bonnes Femmes
Blake Edwards
Interviews
A long-overdue collection of interviews with the multitalented and versatile writer, director, and producer of such films as Days of Wine and Roses, Breakfast at Tiffany’s, Victor/Victoria, and the Pink Panther franchise
Animating the Spirited
Journeys and Transformations
How anime and animation involve and transport viewers to be spirited away
Truth and Consequences
Game Shows in Fiction and Film
A critical study on how the dynamics of game shows are impacting America’s culture
The Supervillain Reader
A fascinating exploration of the history, politics, and aesthetics of supervillains
The New Territory
Ralph Ellison and the Twenty-First Century
A critical advancement and recognition of the enduring power of a great American writer
The Comics of Alison Bechdel
From the Outside In
The first critical volume on a crucial voice in comics
The Bad Sixties
Hollywood Memories of the Counterculture, Antiwar, and Black Power Movements
An exposure of how mainstream film and television wilts flower power and diffuses the potency of protest
Martin R. Delany's Civil War and Reconstruction
A Primary Source Reader
A documentary history of a radical thinker and African American firebrand
Martin R. Delany's Civil War and Reconstruction
A Primary Source Reader
A documentary history of a radical thinker and African American firebrand
Gay Faulkner
Uncovering a Homosexual Presence in Yoknapatawpha and Beyond
The definitive study on the celebrated writer’s often-ignored ties to LGBTQ literature and culture
Faulkner and Print Culture
A fascinating survey of Faulkner’s publishing history with periodicals and publishing houses
Cuban Literature in the Age of Black Insurrection
Manzano, Plácido, and Afro-Latino Religion
A fascinating discovery of the inception of both black Cuban literature and its Afro-Latino religious powers
Cuban Literature in the Age of Black Insurrection
Manzano, Plácido, and Afro-Latino Religion
A fascinating discovery of the inception of both black Cuban literature and its Afro-Latino religious powers
Conversations with Ron Rash
Collected interviews with the award-winning author spanning from the 1994 publication of his first collection of short stories, The Night the New Jesus Fell to Earth, through the publication of his 2015 novel, Above the Waterfall
Carnival Is Woman
Feminism and Performance in Caribbean Mas
Revelations of both the burgeoning power and expression of women celebrating Carnival
Cherchez la Femme
New Orleans Women
A photographic exploration of how New Orleans women have shaped the city
Wes Craven
Interviews
Collected interviews with the pioneer of the modern horror cinema and director of The Last House on the Left, The Hills Have Eyes, A Nightmare on Elm Street,and Scream
New Essays on Eudora Welty, Class, and Race
A groundbreaking work on race and class in the remarkable writer’s fiction and photography
Monstrous Imaginaries
The Legacy of Romanticism in Comics
The first book to explore the lasting influence of Romanticism on contemporary comics monsters
Growing Up Asian American in Young Adult Fiction
Essays exploring how Asian American adolescents form identity in YA fiction
Critical Interventions in Caribbean Politics and Theory
A well-known public intellectual’s intense engagement with politics in the contemporary Caribbean
Conversations with Neil Simon
Collected interviews with the Pulitzer Prize winning playwright and screenwriter best known for his BB Trilogy, which included Brighton Beach Memoirs, Biloxi Blues, and Broadway Bound
Conversations with Dorothy Allison
Conversations with the author of Bastard out of Carolina, Two or Three Things I Know For Sure, Trash, and other works
Ang Lee
Interviews
Collected interviews with the director of such films as Brokeback Mountain; Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon; and Life of Pi
Adrian Rollini
The Life and Music of a Jazz Rambler
The first and definitive biography of the great bass saxophone jazz man
Something Inside So Strong
Life in Pursuit of Choice, Courage, and Change
The autobiography of a reluctant writer who overcame poverty and racism to become a civil rights activist and an award-winning, highly published author of books for young readers
The Smell of Burning Crosses
An Autobiography of a Mississippi Newspaperman
A Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist’s account of the terror and menace leveled at advocates of integration
The Smell of Burning Crosses
An Autobiography of a Mississippi Newspaperman
A Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist’s account of the terror and menace leveled at advocates of integration
Jeff Smith
Conversations
A career-spanning collection of interviews with the comics creator of Bone, RASL, and Tüki: Save the Humans
Jeff Smith
Conversations
A career-spanning collection of interviews with the comics creator of Bone, RASL, and Tüki: Save the Humans
Jazz Transatlantic, Volume II
Jazz Derivatives and Developments in Twentieth-Century Africa
The conclusion of a monumental study of jazz and its lasting influence