Focusing on Gayl Jones's Octavia Butler's Phyllis Alesia Perry's Cristina García's Nora Okja Keller's and Edwidge Danticat's Bellamy shows how cultural context determines the ways in which traumatic history is remembered and transmitted to future generations. Taken together, these narratives of postmemory manifest the haunting presence of the past in the present and constitute an archive of textual witness and global relevance that builds cross-cultural understanding and ethical engagement with the suffering of others.