Exploring "The Lemon Orchard": Stable Meaning, the Perversion of Nature, and Discursive CommunitiesSouth African writer Alex La Guma was an active member of his country's non-white liberation

... The Lemon Orchard Exploring "The Lemon Orchard": Stable Meaning, the Perversion of Nature, and Discursive Communities South African writer Alex La Guma was an active member of his country's non-white liberation movement. One of the 156 people accused in the Treason Trial of 1956, La Guma wrote his first book, A Walk in the Night and Other Stories, in 1962 (Wade 15). "The Lemon Orchard," a story which appeared in this debut work, is a gripping piece about the horror and cruelty of racism. In the story, La Guma describes in chilling detail how a black teacher (who had sought legal redress for being beaten up by his principal and church minister) is roused from his sleep and led to a lemon orchard by four white men for whipping. At the beginning of the story, the moon is "hidden behind long, high parallels of cloud" (La Guma 15). La Guma is apparently

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