The black speculative arts movement, black futurity art+ design /edited by Reynaldo Anderson and Clinton R. Fluker ; foreword by Sheree Renée Thomas

With open eyes : women and African cinema /edited by Kenneth W. Harrow

Tunisie : une démocratisation au-dessus de tout soupçon? / sous la direction de Amin Allal et Vincent Geisser

Futurism and the African imagination : literature and other arts / edited by Dike Okoro

African literature and social change : tribe, nation, race / Olakunle George

For more information, visit SOAS Library’s online catalogue at https://library.soas.ac.uk/

The Seoul Press (published 1907-1937) was Japan’s Korean news flagship. Its mission was to validate the natural justice of Japanese imperialism in Korea, and Japan as the redeeming, organising, and modernising force in East Asia. The Seoul Press represented the Japanese administration of Korea to the world.

The Collection include the years 1907-09 and 1928-37.

 SOAS Library has Photographic reproduction of Nos.22-576 (Mar.1907-Dec.1908) only so this acquisition fills the gap of in our collection.

To access Soule Press Online, lick the link below:

Connect to electronic version via Brill

Please let Jiyeon Wood (Librarian for Japan & Korea) know if you have any feedback.

Bungei Shunjū is a general monthly magazine founded by the author Kikuchi Kan in January 1923.

It is one of the most popular and influential literary magazine in Japan. It has been a central venue for numerous contemporary writers to publish their essays, debates and other literary works, including Akutagawa Ryūnosuke (1892-1927), Kume Masao (1891-1952), Kawabata Yasunari (1899-1972), Kobayashi Hideo (1902-1983), and Naoki Sanjūgo (1891-1934).

Bungei Shunjū Archives offers online access to 323 issues published between January 1923 (Taisho 12) to December 1950 (Showa 25). You can search headlines in article titles, publication, year and month, author and the body of articles. 

To access Bungei Shunjū Archives, please click the link below:

Connect to electronic version via JapanKnowledge

Although SOAS Library subscribes to Bungei shunju (print journal), our library holding starts in the mid-1950s. This acquisition is the great opportunity to acquire the earlier issues before December 1950 to fill the gap and to provide increased accessibility to our users through this now digitised journal. 

Please get in touch with Jiyeon Wood (Librarian for Japan & Korea) if you need any further assistance.

Taiyo ( 太陽= The Sun) is considered indispensable for the study of Japan’s modern period.

Taiyo was a comprehensive magazine published by Hakubunkan (博文館) from January 1895 to February 1928 (a total of 34 volumes, 531 issues of approximately 175000 printed pages). It was Japan’s first general interest popular magazine which offered political, military, economic and social commentary as well as articles on the natural science, literary works, cultural trends and more. It is especially known for its literary criticism, Japanese literature, and translation of Western authors. 

SOAS Library users can explore this full-text journals via Japan Knowledge platform.

To access to Taiyo, please click the link below:

Connect to electronic version via JapanKnowledge

Please let Jiyeon Wood (Librarian for Japan & Korea) know if you have any further questions.

• Africa economic development (second edition) / edited by Emmanuel Nnadozie and Afeikhena Jerome
• Making identity on the Swahili coast, urban life, community, and belonging in Bagamoyo / Steven Fabian
• Policing and politics in Nigeria, a comprehensive history / Akali Omeni
• Making the Tunisian Resurgence / Mahmoud Sami Nabi
• Globalisation and seed sovereignty in sub-Saharan Africa / Clare O’Grady Walshe
• Gender, democracy and institutional; development in Africa / Njoki Nathani Wane
• Commercial and economic law in South Africa / Philip Stoop

For more information, visit SOAS Library’s online catalogue at https://library.soas.ac.uk/

Ancient Near Eastern Studies

• Gilgamesh : The Life of a Poem [ebook] / Michael Schmidt.
• Prince of the Orient: Ancient Near Eastern Studies in memory of H.I. Prince Takahito Mikasa / edited by Ichiro Nakata.
• The first Great Powers: Babylon and Assyria / Arthur Cotterel.

Central Asian Studies

• A history of the Tajiks: Iranians of the East / Richard Foltz.
• Contemporary Kazakh literature. Poetry.
• Contemporary Kazakh literature. Prose.
• Russia & Eurasia / Brent Hierman.

Islamic Studies

• Britain & Islam [ebook] / Martin Pugh.
• The idea of European Islam: religion, ethics, politics and perpetual modernity / Mohammed Hashas.
• The idea of European Islam: religion, ethics, politics and perpetual modernity [ebook] / Mohammed Hashas.
• Theological rationalism in medieval Islam : new sources and perspectives / edited by Lukas Muehlethaler and Gregor Schwarb in cooperation with Sabine Schmidtke.

Middle Eastern Studies

• Arabic literature for the classroom: teaching methods, theories, themes and texts [ebook] / edited by Muhsin J. al-Musawi.
• Armenia and Azerbaijan: anatomy of a rivalry / Laurence Broers.
• How information warfare shaped the Arab Spring : the politics of narrative in Egypt and Tunisia / Nathaniel Greenberg.
• Human rights, Iranian migrants, and state media: from media portrayal to civil reality [ebook] / by Shabnam Moinipour.
• Iran’s quiet revolution: the downfall of the Pahlavi state [ebook] / Ali Mirsepassi.
• Nicosia beyond barriers: voices from a divided city / edited by Alev Adil, Aydin Mehmet Ali, Bahriye Kemal, Maria Petrides.
• Sport, politics, and society in the Middle East / Danyel Reiche, Tamir Sorek (eds).
• The excellence of the Arabs / by Ibn Qutaybah ; translated by Sarah Bowen Savant and Peter Webb; foreword by Jack Weatherford ; volume editor, Michael Cooperson.
• The life and legend of the Sultan Saladin / Jonathan Phillips.
• The War between the Turks and the Persians: conflict and religion in the Safavid and Ottoman worlds / Giovanni-Tommaso Minadoi
• Velvet: a novel /  Huzama Habayeb

The Library wants to hear from you

We welcome feedback on the collection and recommendations for acquiring printed and electronic books, DVDs, CDs and other resources that can support your learning and research at SOAS.

Ebooks

• Gender hate online : understanding the new anti-feminism / editors, Debbie Ging and Eugenia Siapera.
• Pedagogies of crossing : meditations on feminism, sexual politics, memory, and the sacred / M. Jacqui Alexander.
• Positive images : gay men & HIV/AIDS in the culture of ‘post crisis’ / Dion Kagan.
• Shimmering images : trans cinema, embodiment, and the aesthetics of change / Eliza Steinbock.
• The empire of love : toward a theory of intimacy, genealogy, and carnality / Elizabeth A. Povinelli.
• The rise of neoliberal feminism / Catherine Rottenberg.
• Tell me why my children died : rabies, indigenous knowledge, and communicative justice / Charles L. Briggs and Clara Mantini-Briggs.

Notes:

Some of the ebooks above are also available in traditional paper format. In addition, there are new books with regional focus on gender studies, such as Africa or the Middle East. For more information, visit SOAS Library’s online catalogue at https://library.soas.ac.uk/

• The Cambridge dictionary of linguistics / Keith Brown and Jim Miller.
• Fun for All : Translation and Accessibility Practices in Video Games /edited by Carmen Mangiron 
• Implicatures / Sandrine Zufferey, Jacques Moeschler, Anne Reboul.
• Language contact in Europe : the perfect tense through history / Bridget Drinka.
• Philosophical semantics : reintegrating theoretical philosophy / by Claudio Costa.
• Translation and empire : postcolonial theories explained / Douglas Robinson.

Paper Books

• Context, cognition and conditionals / Chi-Hé Elder.
• The Oxford handbook of endangered languages / edited by Kenneth L. Rehg and Lyle Campbell.
• The Oxford handbook of experimental semantics and pragmatics / edited by Chris Cummins and Napoleon Katsos
• The Oxford handbook of modality and mood / ed. by Jan Nuyts and Johan van der Auwera.
• The Oxford handbook of pragmatics / edited by Yan Huang.

For more information, visit SOAS Library’s online catalogue at https://library.soas.ac.uk/

• Routledge handbook of Southeast Asian history / edited by Norman G. Owen.
• Japan’s colonial moment in Southeast Asia, 1942-1945 : the occupiers’ experience / by Satoshi Nakano.
• Myanmar media in transition : legacies, challenges, and change / edited by Lisa Brooten, Jane Madlyn McElhone, Gayathry Venkiteswaran.
• The Thiri Rama : finding Ramayana in Myanmar / edited by Dawn F. Rooney
• Chinese religion in Malaysia : temples and communities / by Tan Chee-Beng.
• The state & the arts in Singapore : policies and institutions / edited by Terence Chong.

For more information on ebooks, visit a SOAS Library website on electronic books and texts.

Paper Books

• Understanding ASEAN’s role in Asia-Pacific order / by Robert Yates.
  [Shelf-mark: G337.11 /535688]
• Hearing Southeast Asia 2019 : Sounds of Hierarchy and Power in Context / by Nathan Porath.
  [Shelf-mark: G780 /541306]
• ‘Queer’ Asia : decolonising and reimagining sexuality and gender / edited by J. Daniel Luther and Jennifer Ung Loh.
  [Shelf-mark: A306.766095 /749292]
• Discipling the Church : a study of Christian education in the Anglican Church of Myanmar / by Saw Maung Doe.
  [Shelf-mark: GB371 /749340]
• Buddhist temples of Thailand : a visual journey through Thailand’s 42 most historic wats / text by Joe Cummings ; photography by Dan White.
  [Shelf-mark: FNB.L /749330]
• The feminization of modernity : a case study of women migrant workers in a Lao garment factory/ by Latdavone Khamphouvong.
  [Shelf-mark: GE331 /540915]
• Performing the arts of Indonesia : Malay identity and politics in the music, dance and theatre of the Riau islands / edited by Margaret Kartomi.
  [Shelf-mark: HK790 /541305]
• Learn Filipino :book one / by Victor Eclar Romero ; illustrations by Manny Francisco.
  [Shelf-mark: IBG415 /989111; MCD1588 (2 CDs)]
• One hundred acclaimed Tagalog movies :sineng mundo, best of Philippine cinema / by Mel Tobias.
  [Shelf-mark: L HB791.43 /989109]
• Traditional anthropological performance healing in Malaysia / by Mohamed Ghouse Nasuruddin.
  [Shelf-mark: L HG615 /541262 ]

Fore more new books, visit SOAS Library’s online catalogue at https://library.soas.ac.uk/