Hutchison, Coleman, 1977-Limón, José Eduardo2013-04-232017-05-112017-05-112011-12December 2http://hdl.handle.net/2152/19997textAs they took stock of the ways that the Great Migration and America’s post-war global role were changing the South, Richard Wright, Carson McCullers, Ralph Ellison, and Albert Murray crafted narratives that articulated a particular perspective on the South. These writers dreamed of putting the regionally distinctive characteristics that they found valuable in the South into conversation with a sense of expansiveness and possibility, one that they associated with a migratory and increasingly globally-connected nation. In this project, I examine these southern cosmopolitan negotiations in Wright, McCullers, Ellison, and Murray’s southern narratives, and I argue that these writers are crucial to our understanding of the post-migration South in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.application/pdfen-USSouthernCosmopolitanismRichard WrightCarson McCullersRalph EllisonAlbert Murray2013-04-23