Rudolph Fisher and His High Yaller

这篇essay，以美国短篇小说作家和小说家Rudolph Fisher为第一人称视角，详细描述了High Yaller这部作品的。他是哈莱姆文艺复兴的一个非常重要的参与者，他试图从影响黑人的民族关系，他们的遗产，并给对方和定型概念化“黑人”分开。

Hello, everyone. I am Rudolph Fisher, an American short-story writer and novelist. If you refer to me, Rudolph Fisher, the Harlem Renaissance can never be ignored. To be honest, I am a very important participant of Harlem Renaissance. It can be considered a blossoming of African American culture from 1918 to 1937, particularly in the creative arts, and also it is the most influential movement in African American literary history. Embracing literary, musical, theatrical, and visual arts, participants such as I sought to reconceptualize “the Negro” apart from the white stereotypes that had influenced black peoples’ relationship to their heritage and to each other. Fictions written during this period of time realistically depicted black urban life in the North. That is just one of the eternal themes of my writing.
  I was born in 1897 and raised chiefly in Providence, Rhode Island, where I received B.A. and M.A. degrees from Brown University. I attended medical school at Howard University in Washington, D.C., graduating in 1924. I had begun placing fiction in prominent magazines such as the Atlantic Monthly by 1925, just as mainstream American literary publishers were becoming fascinated by the Harlem Renaissance. Moving to New York City in 1925, I met other black writers including Langston Hughes, Nella Larsen, James Weldon Johnson, Walter White, and Jessie Redmon Fauset, as well as the white literary celebrity Carl Van Vechten, a major booster of black arts and letters.
  People regarded me as the most gifted short-story writer of the Harlem Renaissance, with much of my work concerning the adjustment of Southern black migrants to the urban scene of Harlem—notably in such pieces as City of Refuge, High Yaller, The South Lingers On, Blades of Steel and Miss Cynthie. In 1928 I published his first novel, The Walls of Jericho, inspired by my friend's challenge that I wrote a novel treating sympathetically both the upper and lower classes of black Harlem. Humorous and gently satirical, the novel presents a hopeful vision that African American men can get ahead in the urban North if they join together to overcome mutual distrust bred by centuries of oppression. 
  The novel I highly recommend to you today is High Yaller. This novel focuses on the internalization of white culture in black society. The protagonist of the novel is Evelyn Brown who looks like a white girl but in fact a black person. As is said, there is nothing brown in her except for her name. At the very beginning, she was criticized for her fondness of frequent contacts with those who had lighter black skin, which anguished her a great deal and caused her to wonder why she could not have darker skin. In order to better integrate into the black society, she even built a relation with a young black named Jay Martin. However, this relation was reproached by people around them because they saw this relation as a combination of different races. After Brown’s mother died, she decided to pretend to be white person. Personally, this is one of my favorite novels and I tried my best to give my readers an interesting as well as insightful story. It was my attempt to tap into a popular audience with a tale of African rituals, a mysterious murder, and hidden identities. 
  Throughout the Harlem Renaissance, I pursued an active career as a physician in private practice, and an X-ray technician. Unfortunately, I died of a mysterious stomach ailment that some scholars suspect was caused by radiation exposure.

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