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Paper short abstract

The paper tries to focus on identifying the space of a river, the river Brahmaputra, as the ‘other’ for selfhood formation that has been expressed through oral narratives. Methodically, the discussion of spatial selfhood will be studied from phenomenological perspectives.

Paper long abstract

Selfhood is constituted linguistically through lived experiences gathered from the surrounding. Cognition of the experiences drives the growth of recognition of oneself in a given environment. It is also to be taken for consideration that the plurality of conscious phenomena has never been fixed in nature. Perceiving the environment is the most normal ecological process to build an absolute synchrony of humanity and nature in a cognizant way. This concept of achieving selfhood ignites studies into the orality of a community. Selfhood can be achieved only and necessarily in a social milieu and the surrounding culture enters essentially into a process of achieving as well as into the resulting character achieved. (Heard: 1923). The individual experiences turn into an articulation for dissemination of thought orally in multiples ways of narratives. The might and magnanimity of the river Brahmaputra that flows through the North Eastern part of India to reach the sea have constantly inspired the people on its bank to identify the vast body of water with the self of people. The connotation of the river entails discourse spotlighting narratives of space. The paper tries to focus on identifying the space of the river as the influential ‘other’ that has been expressed through oral narratives. Methodically, the discussion of spatial selfhood will be studied from phenomenological perspectives.