Emphasis on the textuality of history. Like literature, it is a story we use to interpret, tell about, make sense of the past and connect it to our own values and experience. To study literature, we may need to employ a variety of discourses including, history, sociology, anthropology, theology, political science, and even the sciences. Literature is not a sphere apart or distinct from these other discourses. C.P. disrupts the boundaries between these boundaries.
Literature is political and historical.
For example, Shakespeare's plays are not just literary but political documents. They might attempt to shape and influence social and political policies or they might express certain kinds of social or cultural anxieties and doubts. Historical, religious and political events can be understood and interpreted as forms of art. They are aesthetic events in which actions are invested with larger, symbolic meaning. For example, social events like the Salem Witch Trials, religious services, or political ceremonies are kinds of public performances or theater, just like a play.