In addition, the narrative is also considered as a typical American autobiography in that it: 1/ stands as a life of an individual who also 2/embodies guide to life for others and 3/ reports discovery of the self (we shall comeback to this last point later I mean the making of the self) but first one may wonder why Frederic Douglas felt compelled to tell his life story in the Narrative. ... For this reason our concerned in this part is to study how out of this nothingness, this non-identity, Douglass was able to forge his own sense of himself. ... However, the following analyses we will be...

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