In Seraph on the Suwanee,Zora Neale Hurston shows concern on race and gender as in her previous fictions.Misread by some critics as a soap opera pandering to white readers,Seraph is in fact a masterpiece worthy of in-depth study,which continues Hurston’s tradition of resolving conflicts with humor and demonstrates her cultural stance.Through analyzing the irony,humor and carnivalization in this fiction,it argues that Seraph on the Suwanee is a joke on racism,which blurs the lines between races and questions the notions of cultural and racial purity. In Seraph on the Suwanee, Zora Neale Hurston shows concern on race and gender as in her previous fictions. Mreadread some critics as a soap opera pandering to white readers, Seraph is in fact a masterpiece worthy of in-depth study, which continues to Hurston’s tradition of resolving conflicts with humor and demonstrates her cultural stance.Through analyzing the irony, humor and carnivalization in this fiction, it argues that Seraph on the Suwanee is a joke on racism, which blurs the lines between races and questions the notions of cultural and racial purity.