Hard Times In The Homeown Chapter Summary

Hard times in the Hometown was written by Martin Dusinberre, an English teacher who travels to Kaminoseki, a city located in Yamaguchi Prefecture, a small town on Japan’s Inland Sea who later returns to start dissertation fieldwork in 2003. This book is featured more so in parts rather with the inclusion of chapters to broaden his study rather than use each chapter to focus on one topic at hand. At first thought, the method of writing Kaminoseki in a broad manner seemed opposite to what history writings specifically called for, an interesting style nonetheless. Yet it can seem to be a better plan for more comprehension but it lacked a smooth sequence at the start of the book. For example in Part I titled “Good Fortunes in Kaminoseki” Martin reveals his three reasons for writing this book after giving a brief summary of his viewpoint on Kaminoseki’s geographical features and past …show more content…
“How was his research limited,” is the question posed and answered based on the sources he used for this analysis. As stated in the writing, Martin admitted that his own research was limited because majority, if not all, of his answers about Kaminoseki’s history and answers about everyday life came from men. This puts a hold on gathering further information because of the absence of the voices of the female residents within Kaminoseki. From this information, it could pose another question: “How valid is his book?” The theory for this question arises from the different point of views between men and women. With only having one side to answer for both parties, such information can be rendered invalid. One cannot speak for everyone. There’s also the fact that his sources of unpublished documentations were missing files from a certain time period. True enough his still had more than enough to conduct his research on, yet still not all of his work’s validity can be accounted