Mediality of Sugar

Nadja Gernalzick, Dr. phil. habil. (1998, 2005), University of Mainz, is private lecturer in literature and media at that university and Senior Research Fellow at the University of Vienna. She has taught at universities in Germany, Switzerland, and Austria since 1998. Among her publications is Temporality in American Filmic Autobiography (2018).Joseph Imorde, Weissensee School for Art and Design, Berlin, is Professor for Art History. He published on a wide range of topics, especially on Baroque Art and on the historiography of art.

• AcknowledgementsList of Illustrations and TablesNotes on ContributorsThe Mediality of Sugar: IntroductionNadja Gernalzickpart 1: Sugar as Medium of Social Signification1 Materiality, Medium, and Morality: The Colors of Sugar in Trade and Consumption in Europe TodayKerstin Poehls2 Mediating Social Life: Confectionery as Cultural Objects in Sweden in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth CenturyUlrika Torell3 The Stenographer’s LunchMidori V. Green4 Royal Cavities: Towards a Mediality of SugarJoseph Imorde5 Sweet Prosperity and Bitter Bondage: Caribbean Empowerment and Race in Andrea Stuart’s Sugar in the Blood: A Family’s Story of Slavery and Empire (2012)Tatiana Prorokova-Konradpart 2: Sugar in Art and Architecture6 Architecture and Urban Form Derived from Sugar Production: Company Towns in Brazil from the Nineteenth to the Twenty-First CenturyGabriela Campagnol7 Sugar Cubes That Revolutionized Art: Malevich’s Artistic Project as Interpreted by Leonid Tishkov in Kubvetschnosti (2012)Viola Hildebrand-Schat8 “It Is at This Cost That You Eat Sugar in Europe:” The Desire for Justice and Moreau le Jeune’s Illustrations (1787) for Voltaire’s Candide ou l’optimisme (1759)Kathrin Baumeister9 Sugar Cube Mission Models in California Primary Schools and the Whitewashing of Native American LaborJamie Sierra Karnikpart 3: Outlook10 “Sugar Is Not a Vegetable:” The Mediality of Sugar in Anthropocenic EntanglementsNadja GernalzickAppendix: Geography of World Sugar Production and History of Labor in Sugar: Maps and GraphsNadja Gernalzick, with maps contributed by Gabriela Campagnol and Jamie KarnikIndex of Names