Web 2.0 provides social subjects with the possibility of telling their stories as well as with ways of having them discussed in new interactional forms. This article aims at presenting the interactional positionings which construct a black woman's narrative performance of race in the blog "Eu, Mulher Preta" (I, a Black Woman). This study is based on new digital literacy theories, views of race informed by Queer Theories and on the theorization of narrative as performance. To analyze the blogger's narrative as performance, the analytical framework is based on indexical clues, which indicate particular interactional positionings. The analysis draws attention to the teller who positions herself interactionally as a black woman. We identify, however, a different interactional positioning before her rebirth as black, that is, as a "dirty-white woman". These positionings reflect two conflicting narrative performances: one as black and another that distances herself from her racial origin. This investigation also makes it possible to view race, based on Queer Theories, as a performative trace, placing it side by side with gender and sexuality.
Black woman; Queer theories; Blog; Narrative as discursive performance; Interactional positionings; Indexical clues