Horror e Monstruosidade em Raça Maldita (1900) de Carolina Invernizio: retratos do Gótico Italiano

This article aims to analyze the short story Razza maledetta, written by Carolina Invernizio (1851-1916) and published in the collection Nella rete in 1900, highlighting the Gothic and horrific elements of the characters Toni and Mary, namely, the explicit and implicit monstrosity that manifests at different moments in the plot. Simultaneously, there will be a reflection on possible political and sociological meanings of horror in the aforementioned story, and on the author's modus operandi in using characteristic elements of Gothic and horror to describe and incorporate women’s experiences in Italian society at the turn of the 19th to the 20th century. Firstly, a reflection on the absence of women and the Gothic in the Italian literary canon is presented, followed by biobibliographical aspects about the author, and finally, the presentation and analysis of the short story, as indicated.