The Bedford Glossary of Critical and Literary Terms - Ross Murfin 2018

Site

Site: A nongeographic “space,” or place, where identity or meaning is formed or determined, largely by external forces such as those of history, language, or ideology. Characterizing a text as a site — an approach taken primarily by poststructuralist critics — diminishes the creative role of the author. Similarly, when the human subject, or self, is viewed as a site — whether influenced by what certain psychoanalytic critics term the Other or by the social and economic forces privileged by Marxist critics — the status of the individual is reduced.